REVIEW: Never Somewhere Else by Alex Gray

Never Somewhere Else (DCI Lorrimer #1) by Alex Gray

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction

Read: 30th March 2017

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 ★★★★ 4 stars

Enjoyable read set in Glasgow. Love my Scottish thrillers. I did guess the killer but then I didn't mind. Not that it was easy...I just figured it was. Great read. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

REVIEW: Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves

Telling Tales (DCI Vera Stanhope #2) by Ann Cleeves

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction

Read: 21st March 2017

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★★★★ 4 stars

3 and a half to 4 stars. Pretty much because I felt it dragging a little at the beginning. Even though Vera appeared earlier in this one than in The Crow Trap, I still felt she was a distant ring-in as it switched from one to another, with Vera popping up every now and then. I was longing to see who really murdered Abigail but disappointed with who it turned out to be. I think it would have been better with Robert as the murderer. It made sense. Or even Emma herself. That is one screwed up lady. Vera's right. It's time she (Emma) got a life.

But having said that, I still enjoyed the book. The mystery and the little twists.

REVIEW: Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride

Broken Skin (DS Logan McRae #3) by Stuart MacBride

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction

Read: 10th March 2017

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★★★★★ 5 stars

Brilliant! MacBride has done it again with his dark but very witty humour that often has me laughing, in his third Logan MacRae novel. I can never wait to read the next but I always mix my reading up a bit and tackle another author in between and revisit at a later time. But I love MacBride so much I want to just move onto the next one....hoping to find out a few answers from where this one left off.

While most of the mysteries were solved in this book, one remained just that - a mystery. And who was really responsible? MacBride tantalises with the reader leaving us gasping for more as MacRae ponders what really happened the night footballer Macintyre was beaten to within an inch of his life and left in a coma. Leaving MacRae wondering...just what had Jackie done?

REVIEW: The Darkness and the Deep by Aline Templeton

The Darkness and the Deep (DI Marjory Fleming #2) by Aline Templeton

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction

Read: 5th March 2017

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★★★★ 4 stars

I always enjoy a good British mystery, and I've enjoyed Aline Templeton's first two books in the Marjory Fleming series. However, not being a born and bred Scot (though I am of Scottish heritage) it doesn't help me with some of the Scottish vernacular I struggle to understand. I can generally get the gist but the dialect used makes it hard for those of us who have not grown up with it to understand. This I feel is a drawback for the series....because not all readers will understand the strange vernacular that goes way over our heads.