Thank you netgalley for the opportunity to read this book. It was definately a good read, kind of funny at times good one liners. Great storyline the characters where great also. Definitely a 5 star read. Would recommend to anyone. A lot of reading but worth it.

A Dark So Deadly
Stuart MacBride
Book Review: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Callum is part of the misfit department at the police station. It's the place you end up when something went wrong in your career. DC Callum MacGregor gets all the best cases. When a mummy turns up at the Old-castle tip, it's his job to find out where it came from. I mean how many museums can there be who doesn't know there missing a mummy? More than you would think! Lucky for Callum this case is about to take an interesting turn. The corpse links to 3 new missing person cases. The clock is ticking to save the victims from a slow painful death.

This is a dramatic tale full of disaster and misfit moments. Callum's life is as complex as the case. Can he pull everything together in time to save the day?

5 stars out of 5.

ARC provided via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Hardback £16.99 or Kindle £9.99, 608 pages
Expected publication: April 20th, 2017

I'll start with a confession, I hadn't realised this book wasn’t a Logan McRae one so when I started reading it, I can’t say I was really too enthralled about reading it. However, once I started reading it and getting used to the new characters I started to get into it and just like all the other MacBride books I was hooked! I literally couldn’t put the book down until I read it (took me 2 days!) and I have to admit that was probably the best one Stuart has written! So full of twists that you didn’t seen coming at all but kept you so hooked that you wanted to keep on reading.

I would like to thank Harper Collins and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘A Dark So Deadly’, a standalone thriller by Stuart MacBride the author of the gripping Logan McRae series, in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.
DC Callum MacGregor is sent to work for the Divisional Investigative Support Team, otherwise known as ‘The Misfit Mob’ where police personnel who’ve messed-up but can’t be got rid of are given the cases nobody wants. The Misfit Mob, under the leadership of DI Malcolmson (aka Mother) and DS McAdams, are sent to investigate the discovery of ancient mummies found at the Recycling Facility.
Whilst trying to discover the identity of the mummies and avoid getting into any more trouble, DI MacGregor’s past comes back to haunt him with the discovery of a head in the forest belonging to his mother who, with his father and brother, went missing twenty-six years ago when he was five years old.
I thoroughly enjoyed ‘A Dark So Deadly’ not only for their bumbling attempt to get to the truth, so different to the slick and polished characters in most novels, but for their hilariously irreverent manner of speech. There were so many unexpected twists and turns that the end came as a complete surprise. I do hope we get to read more of DI Callum MacGregor which I’m sure will be as popular as the Logan McRae series.

Wow! Where do you start to write a review on this book? The Misfit Mob are incredible! Gritty, great characters, fantastic storyline, twists, humour, a fantastically crafted book. Fans of MacBride really need to read this one! I loved the ending too. Many thanks to Net Galley for my copy. A must read. I reviewed on Goodreads.

Another well written, fast paced novel full of MacBride' s typical Scottish humour.
A very complicated plotline with lots of interesting new characters, although Mother really got on my nerves.
Published as a standalone novel but with a conclusion that would lend well to another instalment.

No good deed ever goes unpunished, and DC Callum MacGregor is paying the price for covering for his CSI tech girlfriends screw up. He’s been placed on a squad with all the other losers, the kind no one wants to deal with, but no can can fire either. All that changes when MacGregor and his team of misfits land a huge case, one involving a body so old, it’s actually mummified. Police leadership may think the “mummy” has been lifted from a museum, but MacGregor knows better, and it’s up to him and his team to prove it by solving a murder someone believed they’d gotten away with

A misfit team of cops that the police can't sack get it together to solve a serial murder case that is thought to be ancient burials. But no one takes these troublemakers serious and hand them the case. not for a moment believing they'd succeed. DC MacGregor knows better. A thrilling and well-written read with gore and humour. Recommended.

A book that will grip you and make you want to read just one more page...

Every so often you come across a book from an author you were not previously
aware of that make you think why haven’t I read any of this persons work
before? This is one of those books. It is a long time since I read a book that made
me want to set aside reading time as much as this one.
There are nice touches of humour throughout the story that keep it light and
entertaining and make you want to carry on reading. This is a great feat
especially in a book that is no lightweight both in topic and in physical weight.
Without giving too much away there is a point about half way through where
one of the characters has a bad day at the office like no other that will make you
think that no matter what today threw at you it could not be as bad as they
experienced.
The characters are well rounded and each individual forms their own
personality within the readers head so that you genuinely care for some and
detest others. By the end some of them feel like real acquaintances and I would
love to meet them again.
Overall a terrific book.
I will certainly be checking out the authors other titles.