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    Bitter Water

    By Gordon Ferris

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    Shortlisted for the 2012 CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger

    Ferris is a writer of real authority, immersing the reader into his nightmare world with a brand of scabrous writing reminiscent of William McIlvanney's Laidlaw... everything speaks of an original voice. - Independent

    Glasgow's melting. The temperature is rising and so is the murder rate. Douglas Brodie, ex-policeman, ex-soldier and now newest reporter on the Glasgow Gazette, has no shortage of material for his crime column.

    But even Brodie baulks at his latest subject: a rapist who has been tarred and feathered by a balaclava-clad group. Brodie soon discovers a link between this horrific act and a series of brutal beatings.

    As violence spreads and the body count rises, Brodie and advocate Samantha Campbell are entangled in a web of deception and savagery. Brodie is swamped with stories for the Gazette. But how long before he and Sam become the headline?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCorvus
    Release dateApr 1, 2012
    ISBN9780857896063
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    Bitter Water
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    Gordon Ferris

    GORDON FERRIS is an ex-techie in the Ministry of Defence and an ex-partner in one of the Big Four accountancy firms. He is the author of the No. 1 bestselling eBookThe Hanging Shed.

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    • 5/5
      I was expecting an edge-of-my-seat thriller with this the second book in the Douglas Brodie series. The first one blew me away, and this one is just as good, if not better. We open the book about six months after the big bang ending of The Hanging Shed. Douglas is a junior reporter on the Glasgow Gazette. He counts himself lucky to be doing the job he loves when so many of his ex-army buddies are out of work and with no prospects. But Brodie being Brodie, he finds himself in some pretty hot water with a local gang of thugs who are taking the law into their own hands. Brodie's stories in the Gazette about this gang are beginning to make a name for himself. But there is a lot of crime in Glasgow just after WWII, and pretty soon more and more bodies are popping up. Brodie and his friend Sam (Samantha) are drawn into a political and local governance conspiracy which turns out to be very dangerous for them and the people they know. The last 8 chapters of the book are filled with more action and mayhem than anyone who is not a Brodie afficiando would be surprised by, but for me it was what I expected - heart-pounding action, fast-moving plot and written so well by Ferris that it all seemed real. You could read this book as a stand-alone book, but you will get more of the Brodie experience if you read The Hanging Shed first. I love this guy and the wonderful Sam. I highly recommend this series to anyone who is fond of the thriller genre with an historical twist and also anyone who likes books that provide very colourful descriptions of the time and place that the book is set in. Scotland and Glasgow come alive in Ferris's prose, and Douglas Brodie and Samantha Campbell are my new favourite crime fighting team.
    • 3/5
      A good second novel in the series; but it struggles with pacing. I like the lead characters and I will go on to #3, because I want to know what happens to them; not a feeling I had after the first book. As I noted a couple of reviews ago I have scored three books @ 3 stars, although if I were marking on a ten point scale I would have given them 5, 6 &7 to differentiate the levels of enjoyment I received.
    • 4/5
      An unusual plot set in post-war Glasgow, the central character being Douglas Brodie, former detective and a Major in the Seaforth Highlanders during WWII. Brodie is a journalist on the Gazette and understudying the paper's soon to retire chief reporter. The characters are well drawn and the period detail is extensive and apparently well-researched. There is much description in Glasgow / Scottish dialect which some might find difficult but adds authenticity and colour. Recommended.
    • 5/5
      #2 in the Douglas Brodie series takes place a couple of years after the first. The years following World War II are not the golden days everyone had hoped for. Large areas of Glasgow are scheduled for regeneration but with the plans and the money comes corruption at city hall. Many returned soldiers have been unable to find jobs and indeed have been treated badly. Not only that, they can see others profiting by crime. Cases go to court and burglars, murderers, and others are being acquitted for lack of evidence, or through sloppy policing. The result is the rise of vigilantes taking matters into their own hands, and dispensing their own form of justice.Douglas Brodie, working for The Gazette, becomes the target for one of these groups, The Marshall's, to get their message across.I think I enjoyed this novel every bit as much as the first in the series. The main characters are strong, the settings feel historically authentic, and the tension ramps up as the story progresses