No Less The Devil: The unmissable new thriller from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Logan McRae series

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As a huge fan of the McRae series and having read some of this series I was delighted to be given an ARC of No Less The Devil. Of course, the conscientious neurotypical reader can follow each of the threads, by paying close attention. Pink rushed up from the collar of his shirt, flooding his cheeks, making it look as if his tie was tied far too tight.

In real life, this is often true, but most of us read thrillers because we want things to end right, the culprits caught, and justice to prevail. I can’t give much more away without big spoilers, trust me, you’ll just have to read it for yourself.And when Lucy is offered a promotion, she asks herself …had she just sold her soul to the Devil, or only rented it … All clues to where the story is heading. Lucy slipped out of the briefing room, closing the door behind her, shutting off the bored chatter of two dozen plainclothes and uniformed officers. The frightened Strachan has been recently released from prison, he is asking for MacVeigh's help, talking of 'them' being after him, is he just paranoid?

Fully absorbing, both hilarious and very very disturbing this novel is a tale of two halves and goes nowhere you could expect or predict. Stuart MacBride is an author whose books I really enjoy, but some of them tend to be a little graphic in terms of violence and so, being a reading wimp, I often have quite long gaps between reading him. Then very abruptly, a totally unpredictable twist asks us to re-interpret everything we thought was happening. Well, perhaps, with your classical pale complexion, I could tempt you to a slightly brighter lipstick?But if you are after a straight-up police procedural then you might find this one a bit too hard to swallow. I am also pleased to report that this is not particularly graphic – certainly not compared to other books I have by MacBride, so it is safe if you do not enjoy too much violence. And so to UNIVERSITY, far too young, naive and stupid to be away from the family home, sharing a subterranean flat in one of the seedier bits of Edinburgh with a mad Irishman, and four other bizarre individuals. The story begins with a prologue, the murder of a homeless man by two children (preteens), then shifts into typical MacBride country—a police station in Oldcastle, a fictitious city in Scotland that serves as the setting for most of the author’s darker stories—madcap with a somber overcast. If you are looking for Stuart MacBride's dark humour and gritty crime fiction then you have come to the right place.