No Less The Devil: The unmissable new thriller from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Logan McRae series

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Now for those of you readers who don't have a great deal of psychiatric knowledge/background, there comes a point a little over 3/4 of the way through the book when you're going to be thinking 'wtf? Lucy is an very interesting central character and a bit different which I do like and there are some good puzzles created through her.

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Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh should be putting every waking moment into catching the killer, and she does her best, but demands are being made on her time in the form of Benedict Strachan. He's also published standalones, novellas, and short stories, as well as a slightly twisted children's picture book for slightly twisted children. Lucy really isn’t in a great place herself right now, she’s clearly suffering from PTSD, and also has a stalker, and what with the extra pressure of Benedict Strachan, who pleads for her help, she’s definitely on a downward spiral. Meanwhile, McVeigh has personal issues, having possible PTSD and being forced, against her will, to see a therapist. It doesn’t have the pace and brilliance of McBride’s Logan MacRae series and while the main serial killer plot is interesting, it just isn’t gripping me yet and I don’t feel as invested in Lucy as I am with Logan.And when Lucy is offered a promotion, she asks herself …had she just sold her soul to the Devil, or only rented it … All clues to where the story is heading. Denying she has PTSD, she refuses to discuss what happened, so it is half way through the novel before we find out.

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I am also pleased to report that this is not particularly graphic – certainly not compared to other books I have by MacBride, so it is safe if you do not enjoy too much violence. Seventeen months have passed and the officers conducting Operation Maypole are still no closer to cracking it. It won't put me off reading another MacBride novel but I might handle any further books I pick up with a little more caution and some blue nitrile gloves!But that’s better than not attempting to grow beyond one’s comfort zone, which is true of so many authors. It was a little confusing at the start but seemed to find its feet encouraging me to feel hopeful for the remainder of the story. Stuart MacBride is one of my favourite authors and although not perfect, this story is up there with his best in my opinion. Now out of prison and living on the streets with a drug habit, he contacts Lucy, begging for protection from “Them”.