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Paths of the Dead (Rhona Macleod Book 9) by [Lin Anderson]

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Paths of the Dead is the thrilling ninth book in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod.

When Amy MacKenzie agrees to attend a meeting at a local spiritualist church, the last person she expects to hear calling to her from beyond the grave is her son. The son whom she'd only spoken to an hour before.

Then the body of a young man is found inside a Neolithic stone circle high above the city of Glasgow and forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is soon on the case. The hands have been severed and there is a stone in the victim's mouth with the number five scratched on it. DI Michael McNab is certain it's a gangland murder, but Rhona isn't convinced.

When a second body is found in similar circumstances, a pattern begins to emerge, of a killer intent on masterminding a gruesome Druidic game that everyone will be forced to play . . .

Follow Rhona MacLeod in more forensic thrillers with The Special Dead, None but the Dead, Follow the Dead, Sins of the Dead and Time for the Dead.

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August 14, 2014
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"CSI Vegas has Grissom, CSI Miami has Horatio Cane. In the Glasgow crime scene team, Dr. McLeod has the skill, instinct and the balls to match up to her American counterparts." —Daily Record

"Don't be fooled by comparisons, her writing is unique, bringing warmth and depth to even the seediest parts of Glasgow. . . . MacLeod is a complex and compelling heroine who just gets better with every outing." —Stuart MacBride, author, Cold Granite --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Lin Anderson has published several novels and one novella featuring forensic expert Dr Rhona MacLeod. Her short story Dead Close was chosen for the Best of British Crime 2011 and is currently in development as a feature film. Also a screenwriter, her film River Child won a student BAFTA and the Celtic Film Festival best fiction award. Currently Chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland, she is also co-founder of Bloody Scotland, Scotland's International Crime Writing Festival. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00LB89QU0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pan; Main Market edition (August 14, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 14, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 770 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 433 pages

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- #2,105 in Noir Crime
- #7,340 in Murder
- #18,879 in Police Procedurals (Books)

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Lin Anderson is best known as the creator of the forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod series of crime thriller novels, and for her part in founding the annual 'Bloody Scotland' crime writing festival.

Lin's latest book is the stand-alone thriller 'The Party House', published on 4th August 2022.

There are 16 novels and one novella in Lin Anderson's Forensic Scientist Rhona MacLeod Series :-

Novella - Blood Red Roses (prequel to Driftnet)

Book 1 - Driftnet

Book 2 - Torch

Book 3 - Deadly Code

Book 4 - Dark Flight

Book 5 - Easy Kill

Book 6 - Final Cut

Book 7 - The Reborn

Book 8 - Picture Her Dead

Book 9 - Paths of the Dead (Shortlisted for Scottish Crime Book of 2015)

Book 10 - The Special Dead (Longlisted for Scottish Crime Book of 2016)

Book 11 - None but the Dead (Longlisted for Scottish Crime Book of 2017)

Book 12 - Follow the Dead (Shortlisted for Scottish Crime Book of 2018)

Book 13 - Sins of the Dead

Book 14 - Time for the Dead (Longlisted for Scottish Crime Book of 2020)

Book 15 - The Innocent Dead

Book 16 - The Killing Tide

Lin has a second mystery thriller series featuring private investigator Patrick de Courvoisier, set in glamorous Cannes (think 'The Rockford Files' meets James Bond) :-

Book 1 - The Case of the Black Pearl

Book 2 - The Case of the Missing Madonna

Lin has recently co-written with Donald McKay the initial book in a BLAZE DOG DETECTIVE series for children :-

Book 1 - The Magic Flag Mystery

Book 2 - The Dinosaur Mystery

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Diana H. Maine

very complex story line involving ritualistic killings at neolithic stone circles in Scotland

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 26, 2017

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PATHS OF THE DEAD (Rhona Macleod #9) by Lin Anderson, is a very complex story line involving ritualistic killings at various neolithic stone circles in Scotland. Additional plot points include online gaming, clairvoyance, domestic abuse, rape, drug use, and extreme violence.
It is gruesome, gritty reading at times, full of twists and turns, forensic details, police procedures (or lack of, in some cases), and very complex and (at times) self-destructive personal tendencies of some of our main characters.. The descriptions of the neolithic circles in Scotland and a bit of their historical background was fascinating - a great ‘sense of place’ which I am very interested in. I also liked the cover art.
The forensic skills of Rhona and Chrissy, the police procedures and workings of the squad, the steadiness of DI Bill Wilson - when added together, produce this excellent, suspenseful, interesting Scottish noir.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 11, 2014

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Enjoyed this book, was a little concerned we were going to get too much distracted with a certain new character from the last few books, but it soon got back on track and was really exciting leaving me with the feeling I wanted to skip to the end to see the way it ended. I did not do so and am looking forward to the next book.

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Clemens A. Schoonderwoert

Thrilling Deadly Paths!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 5, 2022

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This exciting thriller is the 9th volume of the very likeable "Rhona MacLeod" series.

Storytelling is excellent, most characters are believable and lifelike, and the atmosphere of Glasgow and several other places within this thriller are all wonderfully pictured by the author.

The main part of this tale is featuring in and around Glasgow, with a few outings towards the Orkneys and surrounding areas.

Forensic scientist, Dr Rhona MacLeod, will excel again in this fascinating thriller, along with her assistant, Chrissy McInsh, not to forget the return of DI Bill Wilson, who will make a sudden appearance after having been on leave, while the psychological part of this murderous thriller is a welcoming task for Dr Magnus Pirie, but the only minus, for me personally at least, is the from DS to DI promoted, Michael Joseph McNab, who's acting as an indestructible and always surviving kind of Clint Eastwood, and that is somewhat of a let-down for me.

It's a thriller where motivated Druidic murders are taking place, and combined with the find of criminal drugs, these crimes are superbly interwoven into one another, to make this a welcome complex thriller.

At first a dead body will be found at a Neolithic stone circle above the city of Glasgow, with the hands being severed and a number five in the mouth as a kind of ritual, and this will be followed to several other murdered young people in various other places, while in the neighbourhood of this first dead body a buried holdall of cocaine is located and that will also play an important part in this thriller.

What will follow is a fast-paced thriller with plenty of action, whether they are murder or drug related, and one that is gloriously structured right from the beginning, and that will end with a very appropriate and fitting conclusion, to make this book an entertaining read.

Highly recommended, for this is another great addition to this excellent series, and that's why I like to call this lethal episode: "Thrilling Deadly Paths"!

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Malcolm R

Goodish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 28, 2020

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The written equivalent of BBC’s Silent Witness - The forensic department do all the investigation and the police run around witless. Biggest problem is the ease and speed with which victims are injected with heroin just a quick stab in the neck or back of the knee (really!) and hey presto into a vein or an artery (yes really) no, no ,no! This is mainly about McNab having a breakdown and a complex - needless? - plot to wreak retribution; why on earth does our perpetrator need to carry out five murders to frame McNab and how can he afford it both in time and money? It is reasonably exciting if read with a big pinch of salt but Rhonda really must sort out her private life!

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Ginger Book Geek

Another thrilled read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 8, 2016

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Amy MacKenzie begrudgingly agrees to go to a spiritualist church with her friends, where she hears a disturbing message from the other side- from her son Alan, who was definitely alive and kicking an hour before. Alan has been murdered. DI McNab is convinced that it is a gangland hit but Rhona MacLeod thinks otherwise. Further murders occur and Rhona & McNab face a race against time to discover the killer before he or she kills again and to prevent the death toll from rising any higher.

I reviewed “The Special Dead” by Lin Anderson last year and I loved it. I recently heard Lin read from “Paths Of The Dead” at an event at my local library, which made me want to read it even more and as soon as possible. I was not disappointed as I loved “Paths Of The Dead” just as much as “The Special Dead”. This book illustrates the dangers of meeting people from the internet, who you don’t really know.

Lin is a fantastic storyteller and writer. She manages to make you feel as though you are right there in the thick of the action. Lin uses powerful descriptive words and it is quite easy to imagine all the action going on in your head.

I really took to the character of Rhona MacLeod. She is dedicated to her work and she has suffered adversity in her life, but she has got back up, dusted herself down and carried on. Rhona seems popular with most of her colleagues. I couldn’t help but like the character of DI McNab as he is a loveable rogue. (An accurate comparison would be DS Robbie Ross from the television series “Taggart”). McNab drinks, he used to smoke and take drugs, he is a womaniser who can’t be in a monogamous relationship. McNab believes that he is good at his job despite the fact that to get a result he often has to go outside the law. There is definitely unresolved sexual tension between DI McNab and Rhona.

I found that reading this book was like being on a roller coaster ride, in that there were lots of twists, turns and stomach churning moments. Lin certainly knows how to ramp up the sense of drama and increase the pressure of a situation. At times I was almost reading on through my fingers as I feared what was going to happen next.

I really enjoyed reading this book and I would recommend this series to anybody. I can’t wait to read the rest of the series.

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Bob

Murders, druids, neolithic sites, gaming - this book has it all.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 22, 2018

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Set at a completely different pace to the previous few books, Book 9 is just as intriguing.
Multiple crimes are committed across the Scottish Pentangle of ley lines.
You get to enjoy the Scottish landscape, historic sights, the island of Orkney but the charm is offset by horrific murder.
The solution can be found in an online game which draws McNab in deep, so deep I can't say for fear of a spoiler.
Inspector McNab - yes Inspector goes off grid which proves to be very dangerous for him personally.
And the twists and turns to the conclusions - wow lets just says what happens on the hill stays on the hill...

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Elaine Tomasso

Suspend your disbelief

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 22, 2015

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I really enjoy this series, probably because it's set in my home town of Glasgow, but Paths Of The Dead requires a massive suspension of disbelief. As this has to do with the perpetrator I'll say no more. The book opens with McNab's promotion to Inspector and the discovery of a dead body and a stash of cocaine. All good so far but McNab's promotion is not sitting well with him and the victim's mother receives a message from him at the spiritualist church before anyone knows he's dead. It's all go after that with more bodies linked to an online Druid game and McNab losing the rule book.
Paths Of The Dead is a page turner with something happening on nearly every page, just don't look too closely for realism or likelihood as it won't happen because it is escapism at its best. I thoroughly enjoyed it despite continually thinking "not very likely".

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