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Here Lie the Dead: A Scottish Crime Thriller (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers Book 15)

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I'd read all the previous books in this series and so am invested in the characters. Of course, the author writes to a formula but he does it well so I was looking forward to this novel. This is the 15th novel in this series and while you could read this as a standalone they aren’t really written in a way that makes it easy to know who is who. You will miss jokes, relationships that developed years (books) earlier and generally things might seem a bit jagged due to missing pieces. However if you are wild and carefree and want to jump in here then by all means I will not stop you.

Even Taggart, who had until now seemed content to remain there forever in Ben’s lap, jumped down and retreated under one of the desks. I did say this once already but just in case I will say it again… if you do not like swearing and I don’t mean a light smattering I mean full blast, in your face Fs, Cs and all sorts then please don’t read this. It wont be to your tastes, you will be offended and it will happen fast and very often. On top of the language some of the comments, statements and jokes are not always PC either so if you aren’t up for that kind of humour/writing then be warned this is probably just not for you.

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This book was definitely not one of my favourites from this series, as I also feel like some areas of this series are becoming repetitive. It's always Tyler throwing himself into danger or Ben with his tea and biscuits. I feel like some of the characters have became stagnant and don't really seem to be growing in this series, which I would have expected considering we're 15 books in. Of course, the characters are great - particularly the recurring police team. Their usual antics are all on show. I loved the appearance of Bob Hoon, although really had no idea why he was there and am not convinced he added anything to the story (it's also completely implausible that he would be allowed to have anything to do with a live investigation regardless of how entertaining he is). There is a lot happening in this book - maybe too much for some people but it works. There are a lot of characters but none are too complicated to understand. The flow of the writing is easy to follow and the author manages to make it feel like you are just right there in the room with the crew chatting and talking. I just love these books - if you are even remotely interested (and not easily offended) give them a try thats really all I can say. I praise and love all men who do no sin willingly; but with necessity even the gods do not contend.

It’s clear that the team has history (makes sense, this *is* the 15th in the series). It was complete enough to thoroughly enjoy, but there were sufficient references to past events that I couldn’t help feeling like I was missing out - I will be starting this series with Book 1. This follows right on from book 14 and like I said above my recommendation is to read from the start - you will definitely get a feel for whether you like the series at book 1. But if you jump in here you will also miss a lot of what has happened previously. The body of a young girl is discovered near Eileen Donna Castle not just any young girl, one that vanished seemingly without a trace six months earlier. A video of Orla surfaces which could bring serious implications for her father and CCTV footage of the bride Ellie Tonks outside a bank where the victim had just withdrawn all her savings on the day she disappeared meant things were looking decidedly bleak for possibly one or both the suspects.When the police arrive the bride is going ballistic as under her perception a dead body and the police are deliberately ruining her big day. Her crass and unseemly behaviour make her the bridezilla of all bridezillas with her spitting contempt for the young woman who's passed away. As far as she's concerned the police have to get rid of the body with the minimum of fuss to her big day but that can't happen as the body has to be processed and forensics have to do their thing, this has been complicated by four or more people bringing the body to dry land. We’re friends, that’s all. No need for any of that hanky-panky business at our age. All we’re interested in is a bit of companionship, no’ to be bloody…” He waved a hand, like the rest of the sentence was way on the other side of the room, and he was trying to draw their attention to it. “…rolling around on each other like a couple of past their best sausages in a pan, or, I don’t know, slapping against one another like lumps of room temperature corned beef.” The plot itself is very disjointed and this meant the book didn't engage me as much as the others have done. It took me nearly a week to read which is almost unknown so I clearly wasn't enjoying it as much as normal. I've actually been to visit the castle featured at the start of the book and always look it when an experience connects you to a fictional story. This type of sentence is rarely used in the simple present. The simple present tense is only used when something is always, or habitually, so. But mercenaries always lying dead is not a likely scenario. This type of sentence requires the simple past if it already happened, in which case the verb is lay(s), or if it's happening now, the present continuous, in which case the verb is is/are lying.

There are three verbs with overlapping forms that confuse people: to lay, which means to put something down something, to lie, usually used with down after it, which means to assume a horizontal position, such as we do on a bed, and also a second verb to lie, which means to tell a falsehood. To make things worse, the past of to lay is laid, which is a word that is avoided by some people because it may be used as a somewhat vulgar slang term for having sex with someone. The past of lie (down) is lay (down), and the past of the other lie is simply lied.This was my first of the DCI Logan books, and I originally acquired the audio version. The narrator was great, but the dialect was strong and I had difficulty following the story at the same time as processing the accent. The accent/dialect added a lot of color but was difficult enough that I acquired the Kindle version of the book and stopped listening to the Audible version. When it turns out that Orla's recently had a baby the suspicion immediately falls on her boyfriend Ronnie Donlon Jr but since he was down in England at the time of Orla's disappearance. The local police at the time just put it down to a young woman running away and barely investigated as the girl had left her mother a note.

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