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  • A Song for the Dying

  • By: Stuart MacBride
  • Narrated by: Ian Hanmore
  • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (786 ratings)

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A Song for the Dying

By: Stuart MacBride
Narrated by: Ian Hanmore
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Summary

A heart-stopping crime thriller and the fourth consecutive No. 1 Bestseller from the author of the Logan McRae series and Birthdays for the Dead.

He’s back…

Eight years ago, ‘The Inside Man’ murdered four women and left three more in critical condition – all of them with their stomachs slit open and a plastic doll stitched inside.

And then the killer just … disappeared.

Ash Henderson was a Detective Inspector on the initial investigation, but a lot can change in eight years. His family has been destroyed, his career is in tatters, and one of Oldcastle’s most vicious criminals is making sure he spends the rest of his life in prison.

Now a nurse has turned up dead, a plastic doll buried beneath her skin, and it looks as if Ash might finally get a shot at redemption. At earning his freedom.

At revenge.

©2014 Stuart MacBride (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Critic reviews

"MacBride is the natural heir to the late and much lamented Reginald Hill." (Andrew Taylor, Spectator)
"MacBride is a damned fine writer - no one does dark and gritty like him." (Peter James)
"Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order." (Mark Billingham)
"Some of the grittiest crime-writing in the field." ( Independent)
"Admirers of tough, modern crime novels will be in seventh heaven - or should that be hell?" ( Express)
"Ferocious and funny." (Val McDermid)
"Hard-hitting prose with a bone-dry humour and characters you can genuinely believe in, Stuart MacBride's novels are a real treat." (Simon Kernick)

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Better than the first

A good follow on from the first book. I enjoyed getting to know the characters better, not sure I would want to hang out with them if they were real though! Although realism was stretched to capacity in places it didn’t distract from the story for me. Worth a listen, if you’re a fan of this author.

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A damned fine read

Great characters, narrative, humour & storyline. A page turner. More of this, please. Excellently narrated.

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An excellent story, well narrated.

A good example of the genre , excellent narrator and good characters throughout. Well worth the reading/ listening.

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Very good

Touches of black humour make the gory bits palatable - good plot and very well read.

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Great narration

Great story and fantastic narration. He makes the chsracters come to live with different tones of voice

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Less unremitting that its prequel

Excellent narrator. Love this author but the 1st Ash Henderson book was dark and depressing and I nearly didn't risk this one. It has a slightly lighter tone throughout along with the usual excellent characters and plotting but lacks for me the humour of logan macrae which helps alongside the grim murder.

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Great read

As always Stuart MacBride surpasses previous books, this is the second of three and keeps you rooting for Ash, looking forward to the third, hope it's not the last

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Gritty entertainment

Ash is a very grey 'hero' - short tempered, aggressive & unremorseful, he doesn't seem that far away from the criminals he chases. The most unbelievable bit for me is that he doesn't strangle Dr Alice, a doctor who talks about 'tummies' & is so little girly that she could never survive either the medical or the police world. Other than that, entertaining but gory.

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Spellbinding

Tough gritty
Plot swirling unputdownable!!
Just another feather in the Macbride hat
Roll on the next one

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Brilliant story made better by fantastic narration

What made the experience of listening to A Song for the Dying the most enjoyable?

The headline says it all. I don't normally bother writing reviews but this audiobook was so good I wanted to acknowledge it.

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