![]() ![]() But the humour becomes more and more tasteless as the pile of decomposed children's bodies gets higher, and when you get dialogue such as "I know there's something but I can't put my finger on it," you almost lose the will to live. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae returns to work in a freezing Aberdeen after a long recovery from stab wounds, and within minutes he is investigating a series of horrific murders and child abductions. ![]() Mixing humour and real drama is one of the hardest things to do in crime fiction, and it demands a lot more than lame one-liners, scatalogical expletives, brazenly stereotyped characters and tortuously over-stretched similes. "Tartan Noir" they call this new wave of Scottish thrillers with lacings of gallows humour, but Stuart MacBride just can't pull it off with the aplomb of Brookmyre. ![]() Cold Granite, by Stuart MacBride (HarperCollins, £10) ![]()
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