Killers have terrorized Aberdeen in the past - Detective Sergeant Logan McRae has the scars to prove it - but when body parts show up in a cargo container at the harbor, they kick off Scotland's largest manhunt in twenty years.
The last time they were searching for Kenneth Wiseman, a brutal killer who terrified the country and who was eventually caught only to be acquitted eleven years later on a technicality. Now he's gone missing, people are dying, and the police are certain he's at work again.
As the violence escalates, DS McRae is forced to work with the senior officers assigned to the original case who have returned to Aberdeen to finish what they stared. With decades of secrets and lies coming to light, the only thing that's certain is that the city will never be the same.
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Aberdeen has had its share of psychopaths but when a mechanic finds body parts in a malfunctioning cooling container alarm bells are ringing. Especially since the container seems to come from a company who's owner is the brother-in-law of of Kenneth Wiseman recently acquitted from jail based on a technicality.
People know and fear Wiseman as being the Flesher, who butchered multiple people and left only joints of meat. Now that he is out he's vanished and police are trying to get a hold on him.
Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is part of the new investigation team, bound to let in the investigators from 20 years ago.
He soon begins to feel the maybe the3 investigation team was wrong from the beginning and although an evil man, Kenneth Wiseman might not be the killer they are searching for.
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I haven't read the previous three novels so I don't really want to base anything on character development etc. . The plot in itself is amazingly good if it weren't that the book just seems to be too long.
Very enjoyable is the dialogue between the different police members, characterful, each with own likes and dislikes, they all seemed very normal.
The grim plot and the many twists kept me reading and finishing the book. However I probably won't pick up another book of this series.
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Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Minotaur Books (October 14, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312382634
ISBN-13: 978-0312382636
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