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Dying Light by Stuart MacBride
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Dying Light (original 2006; edition 2007)

by Stuart MacBride

Series: Logan McRae (2)

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The Number One bestselling detective series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride continues in this second crime thriller. It's summertime in Scotland: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying... It's summertime in the Granite City: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying... It starts with Rosie Williams, a prostitute, stripped naked and beaten to death down by the docks - the heart of Aberdeen's red light district. For DS Logan McRae it's a bad start to another bad day. Rosie won't be the only one making an unscheduled trip to the morgue. Across the city six people are burning to death in a petrol-soaked squat, the doors and windows screwed shut from the outside. And despite Logan's best efforts, it's not long before another prostitute turns up on the slab...… (more)
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Title:Dying Light
Authors:Stuart MacBride
Info:St. Martin's Paperbacks (2007), Edition: 1st, Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
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This book has been sitting on my shelf for quite sometime. I don't know why I strayed away from the series, I really liked the first one. I did though but lately I have been on a Scotland and Ireland mystery binge so I went and grabbed it up. There isn't anything groundbreaking in the story but I didn't care. It checked all the boxes for a fun summer read. Plus, I am a sucker for Scotland mysteries. I will be back to this series much faster than last time. ( )
  cdaley | Nov 2, 2023 |
Dying Light
1 Star (DNF)

Unfortunately, this is a very poor follow up to a promising debut.

The build up to the various mysteries proceeds at a snail's pace, and the protagonist, DS Logan McRae, who has such potential in the first book, spends most of hist time complaining about his commanding officer and whining about his girlfriend.

In addition, there is a nasty undercurrent of misogynism in the way the female characters are portrayed, and there is an excessive amount of profanity. I usually don't mind the occasional swear word, especially in police procedurals, but hardly a sentence is uttered without someone swearing or cursing.

Finally, the best murder mysteries are ones in which the reader cares about the victims an/or the investigators and/or is interested in the twists and revelations. Sadly, none of these are compelling enough to warrant continuing with the book. I simply could not care less and there are better books waiting on my TBR. ( )
  Lauren2013 | May 5, 2023 |
This second book in the series was a lot like the first - lots of characters, brutal action, constant murders (seemingly), etc. The bad guys are very bad, and the good guys are better, usually. There were one or two scenes that were a bit over-the-top in brutality, so if you don't like brutal violence, you may need your blinders in some parts. I had trouble even imagining what they did, which perhaps made it easier.

There are a lot of interesting characters, and it's not easy keeping up with who's who, although I remember some from the first book. I plan to continue reading a few more while I can still remember some of them.

I was a bit disappointed near the end when McRae made what I thought was a stupid mistake. He and his partner were expecting trouble at his former girlfriend's house, it was a suspicious situation when he got there, and his old girlfriend seemed strange, and said a few things that were very odd, yet he simply dismissed it and entered the house without any caution. And on top of that, I was screaming at him to be careful, but he ignored me. No wonder his team keeps getting murdered!

I was also disappointed in the ending, which we never got to hear about. These two things contributed to my less than stellar rating. ( )
  MartyFried | Oct 9, 2022 |
Detective Sergeant Logan McRae has been reassigned to D.I. Steels “ screw-up Squad” after a sting operation went wrong and a police officer got hurt badly. Now he must prove that he isn't a screw-up so that he can go back to work with his old group instead of D.I. Steels. But in Aberdeen crime never sleeps and soon he is working on different cases; arson, prostitutes getting murdered and a dead dog in a suitcase.

I found this book not as intense as the first one in the series, it was good, no doubt about it and I loved that Logan now had to work with Steel, but the cases just really never got that interesting. I mean when I was writing about what happened in the book, about the murder of the prostitutes did I have to think for a moment to remember who the killer was. And, I had some problems with the main suspect of the suitcase murders,

the person in question that the police arrest just didn't seem to be capable of planning a killing so it just felt natural when Logan got the right killer towards the end.

But I still enjoyed the book. It's well written, and the most interesting part of the book was, the one part that I felt most anxious about was

Colin Millers abduction and the wait to know what happened to him.

And yes I blamed Logan for that. He should have known that he put Miller in danger. Also, Steel is such a great character, sure she can be a bit brash sometimes, well always, but it's really refreshing to have someone being so vulgar sometimes. ( )
  MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |
I have read this series it seems since time began. I enjoyed the first book of the series which this is a part of...but as the series progresses some of the characters began to become more than slightly annoying and progressed to nearly unreadable. My trouble with the characters actually started with this one. The story begins with Logan McRae in trouble with his squad commander and going through disciplinary actions. This becomes a common occurrence. He finds himself being sent down to D.I. Steele’s squad, (horrible character by the way) also known throughout Aberdeen law enforcement as the “fuck-up squad.” I had forgotten how much I had always hated the character of D.I. Steele. She has no integrity, the manners of an untrained chimp, talks like a drunken sailor, and smokes like a chimney. She thinks nothing of miss-treating or “using” members of her squad. This is what our super cop, Logan McRae, enters into. D.I. Steele has every intention of using Logan for whatever means is at her disposal to get herself some fame and glory and on to better pastures than the “fuck-up squad.” Logan, on the other hand will do just about whatever it takes to get out of this squad and back into his former squad. The book is filled with flawed characters and bad habits. Then there are the bad guys and the REALLY bad guys. A lot of losers. There is plenty of action going on. You will never figure out what is happening in this story before it ends. I've read it before, and I still couldn't do it. There are fire bombings, prostitutes galore that have seen their better days, unfaithful men by the truck load, drug dealers, murdered girls, and even a dog. The dog is innocent. Well good people...we're not in Mayberry anymore that's for sure. ( )
  Carol420 | Jun 4, 2022 |
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The Number One bestselling detective series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride continues in this second crime thriller. It's summertime in Scotland: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying... It's summertime in the Granite City: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying... It starts with Rosie Williams, a prostitute, stripped naked and beaten to death down by the docks - the heart of Aberdeen's red light district. For DS Logan McRae it's a bad start to another bad day. Rosie won't be the only one making an unscheduled trip to the morgue. Across the city six people are burning to death in a petrol-soaked squat, the doors and windows screwed shut from the outside. And despite Logan's best efforts, it's not long before another prostitute turns up on the slab...

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