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[The Blood Road] by Stuart MacBride
Logan MacRae series Book #11
4.5★
Some things just won’t stay buried. Logan McRae’s personal history is hardly squeaky clean, but now that he works for Professional Standards he’s policing his fellow officers. When Detective Inspector Bell turns up dead in the driver’s seat of a crashed car it’s a shock to everyone. Because Bell died two years ago, they buried him. Or they thought they did. As an investigation is launched into Bell’s stabbing, Logan digs into his past. Where has he been all this time? Why did he disappear? And what’s so important that he felt the need to come back from the dead? The deeper Logan digs, the more bones he uncovers – and there are people out there who’ll kill to keep those skeletons buried. If Logan can’t stop them, DI Bell won’t be the only one to die.I really like this series even if I do have some conflict with how the police are portrayed. I sincerely hope there is no police force in the world as incompetent and stupidly careless as the way that Police Scotland is portrayed in this series. There is a great deal of humor in these books in spite of the bodies piling up and evil rearing it's ugly head. The constant bickering among the police officers causes the plot to drag along at times but it really picks up toward the end and presents a more than satisfactory conclusion. Looking forward to #12.
