Kevin McManus – New Blood

I’m thrilled to say I am on the St Patrick’s Day Festival SpellBound Book Tour for the second time. Today, it’s the turn of Kevin McManus and New Blood. Massive thanks to SpellBound Books and ZooLoo’s Book Tours for my invite and the copy of the book to take part.

It’s murder out there… The body of an unknown man has been discovered on a beach in the cold light of day, a body that has been shot and left to bleed out on the sand.

Detective Inspector Ray Logue, still reeling from the events of his last case, is brought in to investigate. While working the case, he is drawn into the maelstrom of gang warfare as he comes face to face with the ‘New Blood’ – a young gang leader called Kyle Brody who is fast making a name for himself.

Brody is lawless. He is a predator and a thug who takes no mercy on those who stand in his way, seemingly rejecting society and taking pride in causing anarchy .
Dealing, smuggling and murdering are Brody’s trades – he’s good at them and from the wounds inflicted on the body Logue sees, it looks like he takes pleasure in cruelty.

Yet as more details emerge about Brody’s accomplices, Logue realises that the lines between good and evil are not always clear.

There’s a storm brewing… Set in Ireland at the peak of the Celtic Tiger era, New Blood is a dark story of murder, greed and misplaced loyalties.

The third book in the Ray Logue series, this is a story that can be read as a standalone. I feel if you want to really understand Logue particularly, start from the first book, Nine Lives. This does allow you to get under his skin.

New Blood begins where Nine Lives ends. Logue is thrown into a case that means he finds himself into the underworld of gangs and violence. As the bodies mount up, can Logue and McGarry get to the truth before they end up dead themselves?

This is a well plotted and well written thriller, which I’d something I have found with every book I have read from this author. His perfectly placed twists and turns in the investigation had me so intrigued that I was almost on the edge of my seat. I really couldn’t leave this book for too long as I wanted to know how everything would pan out for Logue.

Kevin McManus is an author whose books are always fast-paced with vivid characters that are really true to life; that’s what I like about Logue. He is such a straight talker and doesn’t mess about at all. Even the fact it isn’t a big book doesn’t matter; there is so much happening that you finish this book satisfied. I read this so fast that the pages almost turned themselves in the end. I would recommend this book and series for any thriller lovers out there.

Author Bio

Kevin McManus lives in County Leitrim in Western Ireland. He graduated from University with a Masters Degree in History and a Higher Diploma in Education in 1998. Since then he has worked as a secondary school teacher. Kevin has also played in many bands over the years since the mid-eighties in Western Ireland and in Dublin and still retains a great love of music.