The Fracture by Morgan Cry
The Fracture
by Morgan Cry
My thanks to the author and the publisher for sending me a copy to review and to
Random Things Tours for inviting me onto the tour.
Synopsis
Ex-police officer Blake Glover’s past threatens to catch up with him and destroy his small town life in this second instalment of the Blake Glover Crime series by Bloody Scotland co-founder Gordon Brown writing as Morgan Cry.
Ex-police constable and now taxi driver Blake Glover thought retiring to his hometown of Fraserburgh would be calm – until, while attending a local funeral service, he notices something disturbing: did the sturdy expensive coffin split as it was lowered into the grave? How could this be possible? Is there a cruel scheme taking place?
As if this wasn’t enough, one of Blake’s customers from the night before has gone missing and Blake is the last person to have seen him alive.
To make matters even worse, Blake is contacted by his old colleague-turned-nemesis, Mitch Campbell – now imprisoned in Glasgow’s HMP Barlinnie. Mitch is threatening to frame Blake unless he agrees to a dangerous request.
Torn between helping friends, confronting a past enemy and uncovering dark deeds, Blake is dragged into a toxic world of small-town tragedy and big-city drama. As he tries to untangle the truth, he underestimates just how deadly things will become . . .
My Thoughts
No wonder The Fracture has a short review by Ian Rankin on it front cover. “ A decidedly moreish thriller” sums this book up perfectly.
To say that I was gripped is an understatement. To say that I couldn’t put the book down doesn’t do it justice. To wonder why I’ve not come across earlier writings by Morgan Cry is baffling. To ask myself if I will look out for more novels straight away goes without saying.
I don’t often say in my reviews that you must go out and get hold of this book, blank out your diary for the next couple of days and just hide away and read but that’s just what I am going to tell you to do here. Gosh this book is incredible on all counts. The plot draws you with it very cleverly. The characters unfold before your eyes . The wit and dialogue are second to none and no matter how hard you try I would defy anyone to tell me at the beginning of the book how it is going to finish.
Morgan Cry is a writer that knows his audience and he has that accomplished skill of being able to hold them in the palm of his hand whilst he just turns them gently in ever changing directions as the narrative unfurls. The people you will meet along the way come alive in your imagination and you understand their little nuances and why they are as they are.
He doesn’t paint a sunny picture. This is Fraserburgh and Glasgow as cold and unwelcoming as they can be if you know the wrong people in the wrong places, and BarL is definitely the wrong place. There isn’t a spare word in the whole book. Everything is on the page for a reason, namely compelling you to keep turning the pages towards the end , whilst at the same time not wanting the book to end.
It is so refreshing to come across a talent like Morgan Cry who can twist you round his little finger with his storytelling.
About Morgan
Gordon
Brown, also writing as Morgan
Cry,
has twelve crime and thriller books published to date, along with a
novella and a number of short stories.
Gordon is a founding
director of Bloody Scotland, Scotland's International Crime Writing
Festival and runs a strategic planning consultancy. He lives in
Scotland (and when Brexit rules allow, Spain) and is married with two
children - who have long since flown the nest.
In a former
life Gordon delivered pizzas in Toronto, sold non-alcoholic beer in
the Middle East, launched a creativity training business, floated a
high tech company on the London Stock Exchange, compered the main
stage at a two-day music festival and was once booed by 49,000 people
while on the pitch at a major football Cup Final.
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