...if you liked Death Message
...here's a couple more in the Billingham style...
Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride
Stuart MacBride, like Mark Billingham, is another rising star of crime fiction. Broken Skin is his third Logan McRae thriller. Set in a cold and grey Aberdeen. Detective Sergeant McRae is on the hunt for the Granite City Rapist, who is leaving a trail of tortured women behind him. However, when they finally catch him, the police are forced by the courts to let him go. The accused – a football star- has an alibi for every attack. Could they really have got it so badly wrong? Logan thinks so, but the trick will be getting anyone to listen before the real rapist strikes again. Especially as his girlfriend, PC Jackie 'Ball Breaker' Watson, is convinced the footballer is guilty and she's hell-bent on a conviction at any cost!
Grief Encounters by Stuart Pawson
Stuart Pawson regarded as a master of crime fiction is the creator of the DI Charlie Priest series. His latest book Grief Encounters, finds Charlie at the monthly superintendents’ meeting doodling pictures of his colleagues on a notepad. It’s the only form of entertainment to be had, or so he thinks. For the subject of his doodling, DCS Swainby –the ugliest cop in the East Pennine force - quietly announces his resignation because of certain allegations made against him which involve a beautiful woman. When an MP is snapped in a passionate clinch with an attractive woman and makes an exit of the more permanent kind, Charlie knows there’s a connection between the two incidents. But he’s going to have to go to great lengths to prove it...
