It's a big book - just about 450 pages if you're reading it and just shy of fourteen hours if you're listening - and Stuart MacBride allows himself full rein. The book gets going in the second half and does become more exciting but the plot becomes increasingly far-fetched. I have missed a few of the books, this is book 12, I can't remember which one I last read but i has been a few, I will need to go back and catch up. I've been a bit naive in my thinking on Scottish independence: I thought it was a part of a country deciding that it wanted to go it alone.

High-profile and anti-independence campaigner Professor Wilson goes missing from his home and that’s just the start of a major shit-storm all over the place.ABOUT THIS BOOK: Inspector Logan McRae was looking forward to a nice simple case – something to ease him back into work after a year off on the sick.

I could vividly imagine the scenes only from his descriptions and I really enjoyed his hilarious metaphors. Professor Nicholas Wilson is a stridently prominent voice supporting the union and ridiculing independence supporters. Bees bumbled their way between the flowering weeds that lined the drive, hoverflies buzzing amongst the thunderheads, house martins reenacting the Battle of Britain – jinking and swooping and diving, while a clatter of jackdaws looked on from the farmhouse roof. All That's Dead is the twelfth novel in the bestselling Logan 'Lazarus' McRae series written by Stuart MacBride. You'll get to know all (the good and the bad) about the team in Professional Standards and you'll understand how they interact with each other.We flip between the police investigation, Logan dealing with being back on the job and his lasting effects from his injuries and the bad guy.

g. “Mrs Bag-For-Life raised a walking stick and took a wee hurpley step forward”, “one of the lippy auld wifies”. A nation that welcomes everyone: aye, even the English … What I don’t want is some sort of apartheid s****hole full of racist, moronic, ethnic cleansing w*** spasms like you.Social media goes mental, there’s a war brewing between between factions for and against Scottish Nationalism and the media is having a field day. Which will come out on a semiregular basis and deal with such important issues as cats, hens, horses, and whatever publishing stuff is on the go at the time. I would like to thank both Net Galley and Harper Collins for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. Book number 12 in the Logan McRae series, ALL THAT'S DEAD, finds him still an Inspector in Professional Standards, sucked into an ongoing murder investigation when the lead investigator is himself about to be outed by the papers as a member of a Scottish Nationalist group. Book 12 and there isn’t much more you can say about Stuart MacBride, Logan, Steel, Rennie and Tufty that any fan doesn’t know or hasn’t already heard.

It’s almost as if the author couldn’t be bothered or has become complacent and is taking his audience for granted. The perpetrator(s) display a comprehensive awareness of forensics as there is no trace left behind as it becomes clear that Wilson is not the only person abducted and in danger. An engrossing read from a master storyteller who is much more than just blood and guts with some laughs. Ably assisted by the bizarre yet charming Tufty and Rennie, still looking for Logan’s approval at every turn. appeared in some bizarre World War Two musical production; did my best to avoid eating haggis and generally ran about the place a lot.If anything MacBride’s instalment which aside the fact, learning more about the political landscape thanks for the independence of free Scotland or remaining within the United Kingdom and now even more messy Brexit deal that it is. He is one of the best at crafting incredibly real, believable and relatable characters in the crime fiction genre. Mostly it’s because the political aspect of the book was not interesting to me, and I was merely into it from the investigation side of things.