If you enjoy the Logan McRae series you can't go wrong with this - its gripping, gruesome & of course there's MacBride's trademark slightly warped humour. So what's not to love?

I've been looking at other reviews at goodreads & I wholeheartedly agree with many of the comments. Rather than reiterating all those other excellent 5 star reviews I'll keep this brief- unlike the book!
At just short of 600 pages it's not a quick read but I loved every word of it......though the ending left me disappointed. Not because I didn't like it but because it meant that was it - no more. Done. Over. *sigh* Oh well there's always "The Blood Road" to look forward to....



Quotes I particularly liked & want to note:
(McAdams)"Just because you read a lot, Constable, it doesn't mean you read deeply. Skimming across the surface like a water beetle, no idea of the pike swimming through the murky depths below."

(Mother)"Honestly, some days it's like trying to get an angry ginger tom into a pair of Lycra cycling shorts"

(McAdam) "Live your life like the future's never going to happen. Because before you know it: plop.It isn't"

.....& oh how I'd love to read more of the fictional R M Travis' work, especially "Open the Coffins (and Let Them Go Free)". A hint of a twisted tale in the traditional folklore style - delicious... these tasters have really whetted my appetite for the full story 😊

"The Bonemonger's Waltz"
The old lady puffed on her long willow pipe. "Once upon a time there was a little boy whose soul was as dark as the blackest cat. Whose eyes were green as jealousy. And whose skin was as pale as the dead."

"What was name?" asked Justin eagerly.

"Why child, he didn't have a name back then, just an unpronounceable howl of pain and hatred. And he'd come down from the hills at night and steal skeletons from the villagers' graves. Then he'd take them out to the deepest darkest depths of the woods and dance with their bones till dawn".

Hubby spotted this on my wild release pile & pinched it....

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