BLOODSHOT, by Stuart MacBride

(originally posted on June 26, 2007)

I kind of like the UK title, BROKEN SKIN, better but the contents are the same no matter what edition you pick up. Once again, DS Logan Macrae has several cases on the go at the same time, ranging from a brutal sex murderer, a soccer star who can't quite be arrested for several rapes and an eight-year-old killer whose evasion makes our boy a laughingstock. Most writers would be daunted by the number of storylines in play but MacBride keeps things moving and spinning in this superior procedural.