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The Day the King Died: A Terrible Miscarriage of Justice

Jim Morris and Glyn Maddocks

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The Day the King Died concerns the shooting dead of two police officers and shows how the police...

Blackstone's Handbook of Cyber Crime Investigation

Andrew Staniforth, Police National Legal Database, Babak Akhgar and Francesca Bosco

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Blackstone's Handbook of Cyber Crime Investigation provides a clear and detailed introduction to...

Eleanor (1463 KP) rated Cold Granite (Logan McRae #1) in Books

Dec 19, 2019

Cold Granite (Logan McRae #1)

Stuart MacBride | 2005 | Crime, Fiction & Poetry, Thriller

8.2

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Gritty Police procedural.

If you are not going to manage with descriptions of horrendous crimes committed against young children though I would step away from this one.

Listening to the audio of this book narrated by Steve Worsley felt a lot like curling up in front of the TV to watch a post-watershed BBC police procedural series set in Scotland. If you like a good dark down to earth police procedural then this may well be up your alley.

Logan McRae is just returning to work following sustaining horrific injuries in the line of duty and is thrown straight back into the thick of it when the mutilated body of a young boy is discovered. Numerous threads, involving various cases and a smattering of personal life then intertwine to give a very solid down to earth police procedural. OK, I could of done with Logan being a bit less obsessed with every bit of leg he saw but for the time and place set probably fairly accurate…

First in a long-running series and as there's not much on the TV at the minute I'm on board for more of these