Flesh House 
Product Description: - Those who like their crime thrillers diamond hard (but shot through with macabre humour) need look no further than Stuart MacBride. As Flesh House, his latest, once again proves, he has few equals in this area, and is more than worthy of the ever-growing legion of admirers he is gleaning. His tough protagonist, Logan McRae, is once again negotiating the mean streets of Aberdeen, with violence and threat forever at his elbow. Those who have read Cold Granite, Dying Light and Broken Skin will know what to expect here -- and they’ll be aware that they re not in for a comfortable ride.
The city is in a state of fear. Some 20 years ago, the Grampian police nailed a particularly vicious serial killer known as The Flesher, a monster who had claimed victims throughout the country. But one of those frequent legal appeals which so often release dangerous criminals into the community has freed him, and when a container with human body parts appears at Aberdeen harbour, it looks like the stage is once again set for carnage on a massive scale. DS Logan McRae (along with his less experienced colleague, Chief Constable Mark Faulds from Birmingham -- who was on the original team tracking down The Flesher), finds himself in charge of one of the most ambitious manhunts city has ever seen. And then members of the original team tracking down their serial killer prey (whose real name is Ken Wiseman) begin to disappear -- and more human meat is making grisly appearances. All of this is delivered with the requisite grasp of tension and characterisation that we have come to expect from Stuart MacBride. There are those who will feel he has gone too far in Flesh House in confronting the less savoury aspects of human behaviour, but fans of uncompromising crime writing will be in their element. --Barry Forshaw
Customer Ratings: - book. great book ,maybe not as good as the last three but ill still buy his newest one
- This book is a MUST read !!! .. I read this book from start to finish in 3 days !!! my children and partner were left to their own resources ........
I love the characters DS McRae , DI Inch , And DI STEEL is so amusing and straight to the point. This is one of Macbride s best ( after Cold Granite ).
It is full of gut churning details and twists and plots . It is so realistic you feel that you are watching the flesher at work .
I strongly Reccommend this book to anyone . - Fantastic. What can I say, another brilliant piece of writing. Well done Stuart. Di Steel made me laugh so much and what a grusome plot and finish. keep up the excellent work.
- Flesh House is not so Flash. Stereotyped was my thought as I got through the introduction to some of the characters met in Flesh House. The butch and coarse lesbian DI, the One Of The Lads sergeant, The Will Graham rip off hero, who is at the end of a bitter relationship with a colleague, the bluff, bad tempered boss. I wasn t engaged with any of the characters, so consequently didn t care really much what happened! YAWN! Read it all before mate and by far better writers.
The Flesher character was an over the top combination of Buffalo Bill and Leather Face. Some of the descriptions of the murders were very gruesome, yes, but didn t really have any effect on me and seemed for the most part very contrived.
Flesh House does not make me want to pick out another Macbride. Compared to Thomas Harris Macbride is a non-starter. Flesher not worthy to eat at Hannibal s table. - So good!. Forget the cannibalism and violence.
This book was un-putdownable. The characters are entirely believable, the locations familiar and the plots bound along with humour and the total joy of being so well written.
I cann t wait to spend more time with DS Mc Rae and his collegues. Unfortunatley Mr Mac Bride doen t write them fast enough for me.
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Flesh House (ID: 0007244541)
