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A Whisper of Sorrows: A Scottish Detective Mystery (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers Book 6) Kindle Edition

by JD Kirk (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 out of 5 stars 19,427 ratings
The hunter has become the hunted.

Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan caught the twisted child killer known as Mister Whisper.

Two days ago, Mister Whisper escaped.

Now, Jack must track down the most ruthless enemy he has ever faced before he can strike again. But, after ten years behind bars, it isn't just murder that Mister Whisper has in mind.

It's revenge.

A Whisper of Sorrows is the sixth book in the DCI Jack Logan crime thriller series, all based in the Highlands of Scotland, and perfect for fans of Tartan Noir crime fiction.
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    DCI Logan Crime Thrillers
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B088QLRT9D
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zertex Crime
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 5, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.3 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 430 pages
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  • Book 6 of 21 ‏ : ‎ DCI Logan Crime Thrillers
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JD Kirk lives in the Highlands of Scotland with his wife, two children, and a number of sturdy umbrellas. He also doesn't exist. JD is, in fact, the pen name of award-winning author, comic book writer and screenwriter, Barry Hutchison, who also, coincidentally, lives in the Highlands with his wife, two children, and the aforementioned umbrellas.

He has no idea what the 'JD' bit stands for.

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Customers enjoy the book's fast-paced story with exceptional twists and turns, and find it well worth reading with wonderful characters. Moreover, the writing quality is praised, and customers say it keeps them on the edge of their seat throughout. Additionally, customers consider it one of the best books in the series. However, the violence level receives mixed reactions, with some customers finding it almost too violent.

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60 customers mention "Readability"56 positive4 negative

Customers find the book compelling and satisfying to read.

"...from the beginning, and I can tell you they keep getting better and better. I read this one through in one shot...." Read more

"...transformation of Petrie from someone despicable and sadistic but believable (rather like Hannibal Lecter) to a full-on caricature of an evil..." Read more

"...It is a great read but most of all it is an incredible bit of writing." Read more

"...Can't wait for the next one. Great book" Read more

26 customers mention "Character development"26 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the character development in the book, with one mentioning that Jack Logan has become their favorite character.

"...Love the characters and watching them develop." Read more

"...Lots of twists and turns, some expected, some not. Great characters that have been around since book 1. The ending, edge of the seat stuff...." Read more

"...Excellent writing paired with an even more excellent characters. I won't give away the story, but it's fantastic. I highly recommend this one...." Read more

"...Well done, sir. JD Kirk is a master of character development as well as suspense...." Read more

21 customers mention "Series quality"21 positive0 negative

Customers praise this book as one of the best in the DCI Logan series, noting that the series continues to improve with each installment.

"...that Jack Logan has become a favorite character and this series just gets better and better!" Read more

"The best of the series so far. Was hard to put it down. Lots of suspense and twists. Great read!" Read more

"Wow. Best book of the series yet. I highly recommend this series. I can't wait to read the next book." Read more

"I really, really like the DCI Logan series. As soon as I finish one I go on to the next in the series." Read more

12 customers mention "Writing quality"12 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the writing quality of the book.

"This novel is gripping and chilling. It is well written and I love the Scottish setting and dialect. However there is too much language for my taste...." Read more

"...Excellent writing paired with an even more excellent characters. I won't give away the story, but it's fantastic. I highly recommend this one...." Read more

"This is a very well written series.. Each book is good on its own, but also leads you forward in the lives of the characters...." Read more

"...It is a great read but most of all it is an incredible bit of writing." Read more

5 customers mention "Edge retention"5 positive0 negative

Customers say the book kept them on the edge of their seat throughout.

"...But miraculously and much sleepless nights later. Very good book. Kept me on edge. Can't wait to start more." Read more

"From beginning to end it kept me on the edge of my seat and reading past my usual bedtime...." Read more

"...This series really pulls your emotions and keeps you on edge. Amazing!" Read more

"Keeps you on your toes! Love the characters and how they develop! I recommend this book to anyone who loves a good mystery." Read more

4 customers mention "Fun ride"4 positive0 negative

Customers describe the book as a fun ride, with one comparing it to a roller coaster of a story.

"...All of his books are fast reading and fun. Jack is a great good guy." Read more

"...This one will stay with me for a long, long time. Thanks for the awesome wild ride, JD Kirk. I look forward to the next one!" Read more

"Worth more than 5 stars, this is a roller coaster of a ride!..." Read more

"Over the top, suspenseful, and fun..." Read more

18 customers mention "Violence level"6 positive12 negative

Customers have mixed reactions to the violence level in the book, with some finding it too gory and dangerous, while others appreciate its intensity.

"Really a good chase of The Whisper, but gruesome and violent. Still, a book and the images are your own...." Read more

"...of Scotland off the pages as it lays witness to truly engaging, often brutal and always emotionally charged stories...." Read more

"Totally brutal and gory. Unnecessarily violent. I enjoyed all the previous books in the series. I detest this book. End of the series for me." Read more

"...I like the characters That he is made come alive but this book was almost too grisly." Read more

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  • Rugby Prop
    5.0 out of 5 stars Really good but not before bed
    Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2025
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    Really a good chase of The Whisper, but gruesome and violent. Still, a book and the images are your own. One incongruity at the end, though, in the event timing.
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  • Eden.Violet
    4.0 out of 5 stars The Best Words…
    Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2022
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    “I’ll get my coat…”

    No better words are EVER said at the ending of a book! Not even ‘live happily ever after’ because we know there’s no flipping hap… Ahh forget it! He’s got his coat! Now let’s go catch more baddies!

    I subtracted 1 star as there were a couple of bits I didn’t like, otherwise it would of got 5, and I never ever usually give a full house!

    If you’ve not read this author, but like any other books similar, Peter James, Angela Marsons, Brian Freeman, Tess Gerritsen etc, you’ll love these, oh and just buy the lot at once as I did when I was part way through book one and realized how damn good it was and how I knew I’d be reading the lot ASAP and then…

    I’d cry as bad as Bella did in the middle Twilight movie, because there were no more books! Well technically Bella was lamenting her soul mate who is/was? anyway, he’s a vampire, so the whole movie was her crying in bed, crying walking along a grey rocky beach, cry as she climbed a grey rocky hill, cry while she fell in love with her soulmates arch nemesis, THATS the crying I will do when the last book is read, well, except for the falling in love bit as I doubt the author has an arch nemesis…

    ok, stopping now, I think I proved my point of my potential sadness
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  • R. Kittner
    5.0 out of 5 stars best of them so far
    Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2025
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    Okay I’ve read them in order. This is the best so far. I’m still a bit taken aback by the creativity of the language and have to look stuff up but…
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  • Jazmin-Myst
    5.0 out of 5 stars I Really enjoy JD kirk's books
    Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2024
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    Well this 1 had quite a few twist and turns in it And it'll keep you awake and on the edge of your seat I definitely would recommend it to anybody that's into A good mystery
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  • marym
    5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2024
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    The best of the series so far. Was hard to put it down. Lots of suspense and twists. Great read!
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  • SSK
    4.0 out of 5 stars Over the top, suspenseful, and fun
    Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2023
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    As part of DCI Logan's backstory, he threw a sadistic pedophile off the top of the parking garage. Logan has never been convinced throughout the series that Owen Petrie was the brain damaged invalid the world believed he was. Logan was proven right when Petrie escapes his captivity in the beginning of the novel. Now Petrie is out and is changing the rules of the "game" he plays with Logan.

    Normally, I hate crime novels where the cop's family members are in danger. It's a tired trope that's usually unbelievable. The trope works in this novel because the villain has a personal vendetta against Logan based on Logan nearly killing him. Petrie's villainy is somewhat unbelievable though. I can understand why some people were put off by the coincidences which allowed Petrie to be the ultimate supervillain. What put me off was the number of victims and hostages Petrie managed to accrue. Despite this, the suspense made the story fun to read and I finished the last 75% in one sitting. My only other issue is that I wished the denouement went more into what happened to everyone in the end.
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  • Greebo
    5.0 out of 5 stars So, So Good
    Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2024
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    So I've been reading this series in order from the beginning, and I can tell you they keep getting better and better. I read this one through in one shot. I was on the edge of my seat, and I felt so tense, I thought I'd snap. Excellent writing paired with an even more excellent characters. I won't give away the story, but it's fantastic. I highly recommend this one. In fact, pick up the whole series.
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  • T. Moody
    3.0 out of 5 stars Full of action, but stretches belief
    Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2023
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    I’ve read all 6 books in the series so far, and this was the least enjoyable one for me.

    The plot picks up immediately after the events of book 5. Hoon finally gets in contact with Logan, who was ducking his boss for seemingly three days. Logan feared he’d be fired for committing arson in book 5, but it turns out Hoon had no problem with that. Instead the urgent news is that Owen Petrie, Logan’s thought-to-be braindead nemesis, has escaped. (Despite having committed at least two murders of young boys, it’s not clear to me whether Petrie is actually in a prison facility or just resides permanently in a public hospital.)

    The lack of communication, trust, knowledge, and discipline among the police keeps coming. There’s no way to inform Logan of what should be a national manhunt because he won’t answer the phone to his boss? As part of Petrie’s escape, he’s gone on a killing spree, which leads to Logan discovering and hiding evidence that Petrie is targeting him at one crime scene. Petrie meanwhile has a wealth of private information on the police because every senior officer in the series is a technophobe willfully ignorant of and openly hostile towards standard tools of the modern world. As the Petrie investigation unfolds, it turns out other members of the police are aiding the criminals, knowingly and through stupidity.

    A separate murder occurs. It turns out to be connected to the main plot, but treating it as a separate investigation keeps most of the team distracted while Logan continues to go rogue in his hunt for Petrie. I don’t think that murder ever does get fully solved or explained, except as a plot contrivance in service of the Petrie plot.

    At times the text suggests that the police lack personnel and resources, which partially excuses each member of the teaming rushing off alone into danger without sharing information. (Hazma’s near death in book 1 should have been a lesson against trying to investigate and apprehend all alone, but clearly not.) After the main cast of detectives discovers a crime scene or has a brush with death, however, the anonymous uniformed officers and medical responders descend within moments on the scene. Maybe they could spare some of them to begin with, especially given the magnitude of this investigation?

    The most incredulous part for me, though, is the transformation of Petrie from someone despicable and sadistic but believable (rather like Hannibal Lecter) to a full-on caricature of an evil mastermind (like a Bond villain). In the past he’d abducted and killed three kids, which is terrifying because it’s plausible. Here, though, he escapes a (secured??) hospital, lays a trail of obscure clues for Logan and co. (one involving geotagging software that Logan is completely ignorant of), commits six murders and mutilates one corpse, leaves two other stabbing victims for dead, abducts three kids, rigs a bomb to a hostage, and captures and tortures a handful of people, all in the space of 2-3 days. For a man who’s been hospitalized for a decade with brain injuries and appears to be ignorant of modern technology (he comments at one point how much the world has changed when an accomplice uses GPS as if that wasn’t already ubiquitous in 2010).

    I hope this was the big, action-packed conclusion of the Petrie arc and the series returns to interesting and conclusive standalone cases.
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  • Hume Cathrene Anne
    5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible story
    Reviewed in Italy on July 20, 2021
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    It was one of the best books I've ever read. Full of suspense and gore.
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  • callisto1275
    5.0 out of 5 stars Has Logan put the team in jeopardy this time?
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2025
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    This is not going to be pretty, it's not going to end well but it is going to be a wild ride. Following straight on from the Canna investigation Logan is to face with not one but two sworn enemies, Petrie and Bosco. Beginning in Glasgow before heading to Inverness Logan and his team are on the hunt for Petrie, the sadistic child killer. The story is fast paced and twisty, leading to some very dark places indeed. Always out to get his man (men?) has Logan put too much at stake this time?

    I'm new to Logan and his team and the books just get better and better, this one I could not put down. Its an edge of the seater! The team are becoming much more "real" to me and their little foibles are shining out with each successive book. Poor Tyler get the mickey taken out of him constantly but boy, is he a tryer! Could there be some romance in the offing for Logan?

    I can't wait to get onto the next in the series.
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  • Patricia Kampen
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Mist Feed vor every Crime lover
    Reviewed in Germany on August 13, 2022
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    I started with part one of the Logan Series and, within 4 weeks i've made it to part 6. The suspence starts on page one and ends on the very last page. I love to witness the development of the relationships between the characters. Started as collegues and are now actually friends. United in the fight against the Horror of human beings. But this leeds to fear of loosing one of those beloved characters. I Hope they'll make it to the very end!
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  • cc
    5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing story!
    Reviewed in Canada on June 14, 2024
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    I cannot remember ever reading a story as intense as this one. Very well written! Twists all over the place. Since Petrie has been an ongoing character (the most evilest of blokes) since early on in this series, you may want to read books 1-5 before tackling this one (especially read book 5 first) since they’re all well worth it. Wonderful series! Wonderful story telling!
    Thanks to the author for making this book available on KU!
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  • Dorothy Whiley
    5.0 out of 5 stars a riveting tale
    Reviewed in Australia on September 18, 2023
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    I didn’t think these books could get any better. This was definitely the best story so far and the others in this series have been amazing. I honestly could not put this book down, even reading it on my phone while waiting in the doctors surgery🤷🏼 Book 7 will need to be exceptional to beat this story. Thank you for many hours of reading pleasure.
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