No Less The Devil Av Stuart Macbride

<p><b>AN INSTANT <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER.</b><br><br><b>What readers are saying about <i>No Less the Devil</i>:</b><br><br>''<b>Ratchets up the tension</b> and keeps it there'' *****<br>''The plot <b>twist is divine</b>'' *****<br>''The <b>last quarter</b> of the book <b>goes to an all-time new level</b>'' *****<br>''MacBride is an <b>absolute master</b> of understated <b>dark humour</b>'' *****<br><br><br><b>''We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.''</b><br><br>It''s been seventeen months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no nearer to catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, the top brass are demanding results, but the investigation is sinking fast.<br><br>Now isn''t the time to get distracted with other cases, but Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh doesn''t have much choice. When Benedict Strachan was just eleven, he hunted down and killed a homeless man. No one''s ever figured out why Benedict did it, but n