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A Plague of Crows
- DS Hutton, Book 2
- Narrated by: David McCallion
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Summary
DS Hutton returns in a blisteringly brutal crime novel that obliterates the line between thriller and horror, and elevates the Hutton series to the upper echelons of contemporary noir fiction.
Three people are dead. Murdered. Each one bound and gagged in a forest, the top of the skull removed, their exposed brain picked at by crows. If they were lucky, they died quickly. DS Hutton has been on sick leave for several months, living on the side of a Scottish mountain. However, the Plague of Crows has arrived, all hands are on deck and Hutton is summoned back to duty. Outside detectives are brought in, tensions rise, little changes. Hutton, however, finds himself at the forefront of the investigation, drawn further and further into the mire, and soon haunted by his past and plummeting, out of control, into an abyss of sex, alcohol and guilt. And when he reaches the bottom, the Plague of Crows will be waiting for him....
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“Lindsay is an underrated writer with an eccentric, blisteringly satirical voice.” (Sunday Express)
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- Elspeth
- 06-11-23
Rivetting
I tend to listen to books more nowadays, though having had my cataracts fixed I might read again. This was one of the best books I've read in ages. I found a few scenes had me squirming, and more than a few made me stop and think, but Douglas tends to pull you up by your bootstraps doesn't he? Well done!
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- Barry Star
- 05-06-22
Dark, sombre and unsatisfactory
You need to be feeling strong to take this book on. It's full of unspeakable horror and deep, despairing depression as once again a deeply troubled, maverick cop takes on the arch villain. But it's slow going and the back story of the cop dominates leaving much of the plot to unfold through simple narrative. The denouement is to my mind very unsatisfactory. Regrettably I don't think the imagination that inflicts the horror is matched by the quality of the story telling, though to be honest I'm also very tired of this same anti-hero detective appearing time and again in all these only slightly different guises.
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- april davey
- 27-02-23
didn't even bother to listen to the end
awful more about the cop and not the crime ok if you like a pityfest
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