A review by fonril
Der Totenmacher, by Stuart MacBride
4.0
I'm a recent inductee to the Stuart MacBride fan base, I've read the Ash Henderson series and absolutely love them. This one is a stand alone but follows a similar vein of dark, gruesoke themes, incredible gritty and hard-punching dialogue and superbly drawn characters.
DC Callum MacGregor is a man who is struggling - at work, he's stuck in the Misfit Mob, the group of police officers who, for one reason or another, are relegated to the crappiest office to deal with the most mundane and undesirable cases. He has a pregnant girlfriend at home and because he took the blame for a mistake she made, his colleagues think he purposely mucked up a crime scene because he was bribed.
When a mummified body turns up at a local dump, it seems like a tedious case involving endless phone calls to museums to see who has lost one od their exhibits. That is, until it becomes clear that the mummy is not historical at all but a recent victim of a deranged killer.
Like his other novels that I've read, this rolicks along at a good pace and in some sections, I just couldn't read fast enough to get to the next page to find out what happened next. I adore the dark humour, the banter between the characters is done very well and it's peppered with plenty of crude violence and mayhem to keep you engaged.
Another triumph of a book by this author.
DC Callum MacGregor is a man who is struggling - at work, he's stuck in the Misfit Mob, the group of police officers who, for one reason or another, are relegated to the crappiest office to deal with the most mundane and undesirable cases. He has a pregnant girlfriend at home and because he took the blame for a mistake she made, his colleagues think he purposely mucked up a crime scene because he was bribed.
When a mummified body turns up at a local dump, it seems like a tedious case involving endless phone calls to museums to see who has lost one od their exhibits. That is, until it becomes clear that the mummy is not historical at all but a recent victim of a deranged killer.
Like his other novels that I've read, this rolicks along at a good pace and in some sections, I just couldn't read fast enough to get to the next page to find out what happened next. I adore the dark humour, the banter between the characters is done very well and it's peppered with plenty of crude violence and mayhem to keep you engaged.
Another triumph of a book by this author.