The Library Murders – M.R. Mackenzie
If you haven’t read M.R. Mackenzie s previous two Anna Scavolini crime thrillers ( In The Silence and Cruel Summer ) both are highly recommended. You won’t need to have read these books however to delve into The Library Murders as it’s a standalone thriller, but does help to see the unique place in Scottish crime fiction that Mackenzie is developing for himself and how this latest book adds another facet to his writing. It’s not just the Glasgow setting and locations, although those are quite colourfully depicted, as much as how Mackenzie continues to take a wider view on crime as a whole in his books. So far in his first two novels (and one free download short story The Girl Who Wasn’t ) M.R. Mackenzie has covered common gang related violence, the abuse of power by politicians and law enforcement authorities and the crimes enacted by men on women in the form of rape, domestic violence and psychological abuse. In many cases all these crimes are interrelated and Mackenzie covers them ...