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Thicker Than Water

A Scottish Crime Thriller (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, Book 2)

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Thicker Than Water

By: JD Kirk
Narrated by: Angus King
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Not all monsters are make-believe.

When a badly mutilated body washes up on the shores of Loch Ness, DCI Jack Logan's dream of a quiet life in the Highlands is shattered.

While the media speculates wildly about monster attacks, Jack and the Major Investigations Team must act fast to catch the killer before they can strike again.

But with Nessie-hunters descending on the area in their dozens, and an old enemy rearing his ugly head, the case could well turn out to be the most challenging of Jack's career.

And, if he isn't careful, the last.

Death and dark humour combine in this fast-paced Tartan noir crime thriller set in the Highlands of Scotland.

‘DCI Logan is sure to become one of Scotland’s best-loved detectives.’ (Adam Croft)

©2019 JD Kirk (P)2019 JD Kirk Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Fiction Crime Scotland Highlander Scottish Police Procedurals
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Struggled to find a series to get into after Stuart McBride's Logan McRae and Denzil Mayrick DCI Dailey. Prefer crime novels with some comic relief in addition to 'show don't tell' clever mystery. Otherwise these type of novels can become quite depressing. This has it all in spades. Some of the dialog delivered between characters is priceless particularly when delivered in such a deadpan glaswegian accent.
Pathologist: 'hmmm.....Jack....I knew a Jack once'
DCI Logan: 'yeah....it's... quite a common name'
Highly recommended and will go through whole series for sure.

Exceptional narrator and novel

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The author was new to me when I listened to Book 1 and I enjoyed the straight forward approach to the genre. Get on with the story and don't pad out with lots of back-stories, sartorial details and psychological navel-gazing. Book 2 largely avoids these annoying diversions but has strayed into including some of the other clichés of detective fiction writing such as having a gormless police constable, colleagues being sarcastic or arguing with one another to an excessive degree and superior police officers giving underlings bollockings. In this book the author had the superintendent giving the bollocking to his chief inspector in dialogue so ridiculously full of the F-word that many short sentences contained it three or more times. The whole book is peppered with the F-word to an excessive degree. Swearing has it's place but loses its force when used to such excess and smacks of laziness in the writing. The journey to the detection of the crime is engaging but the final revelations are pulled out of a hat and not convincing.
The narrator is very good

DIdn't enjoy as much as Book 1 in the series

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Very impressed, I'm already looking forward to the book in the series. The style reminds me of Macbride's Logan McRae series, high praise indeed.

Good story & fun too

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This book does the simple stuff really well. A tried and tested structure but it has enough twists to keep it fresh. DCI Logan is great and all the returning characters add to the story. Only reason I can't give it 5 stars is that there is a twist that is given away a bit too early. Otherwise a fantastic crime thriller.

Awesome

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enjoyable read,not too gory,will continue on to next one in the series of DCI Logan

good

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