No Less The Devil
Stuart MacBride PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
This gritty police drama with its lashings of dark humour is not for the squeamish. DS Lucy McVeigh and her physically unfit partner, DC Duncan ‘the Dunk’ Fraser, are on the trail of a serial killer. But McVeigh is being stalked by a troubled Benedict Stracham, who has been recently released from internment after having killed a homeless man. There’s a lot of murky happenings in the streets and surrounding gloomy woods of the Scottish town of Oldcastle, so I wouldn’t advise venturing there after dark.