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Now don’t ask me why, but I have to admit that I had not got round to reading any Stuart Macbride books, prior to this one. The frightened Strachan has been recently released from prison, he is asking for MacVeigh's help, talking of 'them' being after him, is he just paranoid? NO LESS THE DEVIL is no exception to that but, take my word for it, it is EXCEPTIONAL in one other major way.
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If you are going to have any chance of keeping up with the storyline you need to be reading this over as few an amount of sittings as possible so make sure you've got drinks and snacks and a comfy chair! In No Less The Devil we meet DS Lucy McVeigh and her sidekick 'Dunc' - they form the usual pairing format that we all expect and love from crime thrillers and I enjoyed their interactions. In real life, this is often true, but most of us read thrillers because we want things to end right, the culprits caught, and justice to prevail. A completely unexpected plot twist takes No Less The Devil into a different style of psychological thriller to any previous work of MacBride's that I've encountered.
I immediately thought about all those people who post pictures of their cats on their social media pages (and I am guilty of this). I'm a big fan of Stuart MacBride but initially felt No Less The Devil was once again treading familiar - yet enjoyable - territory. For me this was a four star, very good book which I felt I had a good grip on until suddenly the author took the whole thing, threw it in the air and when the dust settled my outlook was totally changed. Added into this she is targeted by the mother of a murdered man and seemingly being stalked by the Bloodsmith, oh and then there's the small matter of Charlie from Professional Standards who is constantly sniffing around.
No Less the Devil by Stuart MacBride | Goodreads No Less the Devil by Stuart MacBride | Goodreads
No one's ever figured out why Benedict did it, but now, after sixteen years, he's back on the streets again - battered, frightened, convinced a shadowy 'They' are out to get him, and begging Lucy for help. Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh and her colleague The Dunc end up having to sort out the mess that The Bloodsmith Killer has caused.The killer has been nicknamed The Bloodsmith by the press and there are shades of Jack the Ripper in the way that the bodies have been mutilated and echoes of the Yorkshire Ripper in the repeated criticism of the police who are “still no nearer to catching him”.
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Whilst it is definitely an unsettling direction for the book to take, I did find myself coming to terms with it as I read on.There's something about being handed a wadge of cash as you clamber off the minibus from the heliport, having spent the last two weeks offshore and the last two hours in an orange, rubber romper suit / body bag, then blowing most of it in the pubs and clubs of Aberdeen.
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