Close to the Bone

✍ Scribed by MacBride, Stuart B

• Book ID: 107621787
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 275 KB
• Series: MacBride 8
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780007344260

✦ Synopsis

From the No. 1 bestselling author of Shatter the Bones and Birthdays for the Dead, a new crime thriller featuring DS Logan McRae.

The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and stabbed, with a burning tyre around its neck. But is this a gangland execution or something much darker?

Someones leaving little knots of bones outside Detective Inspector Logan McRaes house, but hes got more pressing things to worry about. Rival drug gangs are fighting over product and territory; two teenage lovers are missing; someones crippling Asian immigrants; and Logans been lumbered with an ambitious new Detective Sergeant, a mountain of paperwork, and the unwelcome attention of his superiors and the local crime boss.

When another body turns up, it looks as if the similarities between these murders and the plot of a bestselling novel are more than just a coincidence. And perhaps those little knots of bones are more important than they look...

Review

Praise for Stuart MacBride:

MacBride is a damned fine writer no one does dark and gritty like him PETER JAMES

Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order
Mark Billingham

Some of the grittiest crime-writing in the field
Independent

Admirers of tough, modern crime novels will be in seventh heaven or should that be hell?
Express

Ferocious and funny
Val McDermid

Hard-hitting prose with a bone-dry humour and characters you can genuinely believe in, Stuart MacBrides novels are a real treat
Simon Kernick

About the Author

Stuart MacBride is the No 1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series and Birthdays for the Dead.

The McRae novels have won him the CWAs Dagger in the Library, the Barry Award for Best Debut Novel, and Best Breakthrough Author at the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards. In 2012 Stuart was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Hall of Fame.

Stuarts other works include Halfhead, a near-future thriller, Sawbones, a novella aimed at adult emergent readers, and several short stories.

He lives in the north-east of Scotland with his wife, Fiona and cat, Grendel.