Dying Light
Rosie Williams died the way she'd lived: ugly.
It starts with a prostitute, stripped naked and beaten to death in the heart of Aberdeen's red light district. For DS Logan McRae it's a bad start to another bad day; no longer the golden boy of Grampian Police he's been palmed off on a DI everyone knows is a jinx, waiting for the axe to fall with all the other rejects in the 'Screw-Up Squad'.
Summertime in the Granite City, the sun is shining, the sky is blue, and the morgue is getting crowded: burnt bodies, murdered junkies, dismembered Labradors, and battered prostitutes. And as if that wasn't enough to worry about, there's a PC lying in Accident and Emergency with a bullet in him, and it's all Logan's fault.
Half of Grampian Police aren't talking to him, Inspector Napier from 'Professional Standards' is hell-bent on getting him fired, and DI Steel takes the credit for anything he does right.
It's going to be one of those weeks.
Dying Light is the second book in the Logan McRae / Cold Granite series.
I think this was the book where I really got into the idea of tormenting the living hell out of my characters. And as a result came up with a little scene that seemed perfectly logical to me, but seriously put some people off their food for weeks. Which came as a bit of a surprise to me, as the thing they always complained about isn't seen on the page at all, it all takes place between their ears.
Of course, sometimes that just makes it even worse...
Dying Light was published in France as Mortelle Ecosse, and managed to glean three one-star reviews on Amazon because people bought it, and then discovered that they couldn't actually read French. I'm not kidding:
"Advert does not advise on language bought it thinking it was one of Stuart's earlier books cant read French either"
"glad to find out im no the only edjit that bought this een
maybees the fact that Bernard Ferry is listed as translator shoul have been a clue
ohh well im sure itll find a hame"
"I am afraid my brain must have been in neutral when I ordered this book, as it is in French and I don't have a very good command of that language. I will pass it on someday to someone who does."
Ah well: three one-star reviews, but at least they owned up to a degree of complicit silliness... I suppose.
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