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In a Place of Darkness, by Stuart MacBride

"THE CLOCK IS TICKING TO CATCH A SERIAL KILLER�

Detective Constable Angus MacVicar has just landed his dream job � transferred out of uniform and assigned to Oldcastle’s biggest ongoing murder investigation: Operation Telegram, hunting the 'Fortnight Killer'.

Every two weeks another couple is targeted. One victim is left at the scene, their corpse used as a twisted message board. The second body is never seen again.

This should be the perfect chance for Angus to prove himself, but he’s been lumbered with the forensic psychologist from hell. It’s been twelve days since the Fortnight Killer last struck, and the investigation’s running out of time."

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Well written enough to keep me reading to the bloody, violent, crude end; but because of the excessive nature of the blood, violence and crudeness, I will never read another book by this author. Just not my choice of entertainment, "humor," or style.

Pat wrote: "Well written enough to keep me reading to the bloody, violent, crude end; but because of the excessive nature of the blood, violence and crudeness, I will never read another book by this author. Ju..."

Yes I'm afraid McBride is a bit marmite in that you either like him or you don't.

For me I do like him and the humour but at times the violence can be a bit over the top

Not sure I can be bothered to finish this one. It isn't grabbing me to the point where I want/need to find out how the author is going to sort all this out.
Yes, it is funny, as a necessary counterpoint to all the nastiness I suppose, but that's not enough as far as I am concerned.
The caricatures (most aren't even characters) are not just over the top, they are down the other side of the slope and tangled up with discarded shopping trolleys and prams in the muddy ditch at the bottom.
But that's just me(h).