The Bonnie Dead: A Scottish Detective Mystery (DCI Lomond Crime Thrillers)

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Storytelling is marvellous, the story is well structured and executed, but the characters in general are professionally very sound but personally somewhat shallow, and that last bit is my only small complaint about this story as a whole. Soon afterward, their life of crime began in earnest, as the duo started committing several robberies together. But before long, Clyde Barrow’s crimes began to escalate. After one of his accomplices killed a store owner in 1932, Clyde decided to go on the run. And he took Bonnie with him. The funny part here is though, that it is written so well you keep reading to the end without question, thoroughly enjoying the read. The disappointed comes when you realize the read is over and none of your questions were answered. If you like writers like JD Kirk, Ian Rankin, and Stuart MacBride, this addictive thriller will have you gripped until its haunting, heart-in-the-mouth climax. I haven’t read any of Andrew Raymond’s books before, so I was excited to read The Bonnie Dead, the first novel in the DCI Lomond Crime Thrillers series and it was brilliant! I sometimes find it hard to get into thrillers, but I couldn’t put it down and read it within a day.

They enlisted Methvin’s father, whom Bonnie and Clyde knew, to wait on the side of the road as bait. Then, they waited. And waited. Finally, around 9 a.m. on May 23, the police saw Clyde’s stolen Ford V8 speeding down the road.

Cut off from the outside world at a remote country home, it doesn’t take long for the whisky to flow, old resentments to reignite…and another dead body to appear. Wikimedia Commons A photo of Bonnie and Clyde’s “death car,” where they spent their bloody final moments. With the assistance of a CIA officer and an intelligence analyst, the two reporters discover evidence of a conspiracy involving the British government, the white house, and a dark deep state organization. Author decided it was a dirty ex cop: they find liters of blood, omg it is all so bad never seen before crime scene, with the blood and dna of all the kids in that residence. Though this was all cleaned up, yet they find samples ( that should very much be compromised) that they can analyze in a day . Also who writes bloody messages on a carpet (to start with in a darn carpet??) only to clean it up again? That makes no sense at all. Still trying to figure what went wrong all those years ago, DCI Lomond and his team, after relentless and desperate investigations, will come up with new evidence and some more skeletons will be found connected to the Sandman.

What I liked best was the complexity of the story. There were five members of the team, a half dozen or so other officers playing major roles, three separate crimes over a twenty year period, and more suspects than I could count. And yet it all worked. Granted, I've never heard of anything remotely similar happening in real life. But somehow Mr. Raymond makes it work.Five years ago, DCI John Lomond led the search for notorious Glasgow child-killer ‘The Sandman', until personal tragedy forced him off the case. In North Korea, any literature not written by or about the leadership of the country is banned. Any book that doesn’t focus on the rise of the Party or that does not glorify the rise of Kim’s power is banned. This makes it difficult to imagine the other, whether the other is a place, person, or time.