No Less the Devil

Brought to you by Penguin.

The chilling and compulsive new novel from the number one best-selling author.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

It's been 17 months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim, and Operation Maypole is still no nearer catching him. The media is whipping up a storm and the top brass are demanding results, but the investigation is sinking fast.

Now isn't the time to get distracted with other cases, but Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh doesn't have much choice. When Benedict Strachan was just 11, he hunted down and killed a homeless man. No one's ever figured out why Benedict did it, but now, after 16 years, he's back on the streets again—battered, frightened, convinced a shadowy 'They' are out to get him, and begging Lucy for help.

It sounds like paranoia, but what if he's right? What if he really is caught up in something bigger and darker than Lucy's ever dealt with before? What if the Bloodsmith isn't the only monster out there? And what's going to happen when Lucy goes after them?

©2022 Stuart MacBride (P)2022 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"A magnetic mix of creepy places, dark humour, horror and violence." (Sun)

Strange and disconnected

To strange for me and difficult to follow. The did not feel gripped by the story at all. No McBride best I must say.

Lowered Expectations

Wasn’t my favorite content but kept listening hoping it would get better but it did not 😔

One of the best narrators around

If you’re listening to a book set in Scotland it has to be narrated in a true Scottish voice. Cathleen McCarron nails it. The twist in the storyline is a bit hard to take at first but by the end it works well and will hopefully be the first of many with these characters.

Started strong but…

I did not care for the direction that this story took. That does not mean it isn’t a well written book or even a clever story. It simply wasn’t to my taste. If you were looking for something by this author, that is slightly different from his other books, this might be for you. The characters were engaging as usual. I simply found it a bit ridiculous

What the Bleep Was That?

Stuart MacBride has been one of my favorite authors for years, every book release a cause for celebration and multiple readings. I don’t even know what to say about this one. Usually the gruesome aspects of his books were offset by the imperfect but likeable, ultimately moral central characters (Oh for one divine moment of Logan MacCrea!!!) His books were laced with large doses of dark humor that had me laughing out loud and full of quotes worth saving and repeating. This one is relentlessly dark, humorless and confusing to the point of being incomprehensible. Plotting is absolute madness, taking to new outer space frontiers the device of the unreliable narrator. It’s the one and only MacBride (is this really MacBride?) book that I was barely able to finish. Let’s hope it’s just a blip in an otherwise wonderful catalogue.