September 2013 Book of the Month.
I am a big fan of this Scottish Detective Logan McRae who is now involved in this eighth case. He’s an attractive character who is constantly rushing from panic to panic but throughout keeps his humanity and humour, some of which is verging on the “black”. He works in a chaotic irregular way. He’s got a girlfriend in a coma and lives in a caravan since his house was burned down. You need to read the earlier books to find out how and why. He’s now got an ambitious young female officer to partner him – she is trouble! Logan has a big problem with the ailing local major criminal. All in all the whole tale is first rate.
The Lovereading view...
Eighth in the gritty, grim and totally addictive crime series starring DS Logan McRae. Burning bodies, bits of bone and overbearing superiors are the least of DS McRae's worries as a series of gruesome murders, seemingly following a bestselling novel, dominate the Aberdeenshire constabulary.
A 'Piece of Passion' from the publisher...
'Close to the Bone is the latest instalment in Stuart MacBride’s brilliant series of Aberdeen-set crime novels. Filled with dark deeds and featuring killers as twisted as they come, the Logan McRae novels deliver the thrills and tension that lovers of good crime fiction crave. But Stuart’s novels are also imbued with a sense of authenticity and realism that is second to none, and he achieves the rare feat of capturing the black humour and camaraderie of a team of colleagues dealing with situations most ordinary people will never have to face. The twists and turns are all in place, and the ending is satisfyingly surprising, but the real joy of Close to the Bone, and all the novels in this series, is that Logan McRae is a character we want to spend time with and can all relate to.' - Sarah Hodgson, Deputy Publishing Director, HarperFiction
Logan McRae series:
1. Cold Granite
2. Dying Light
3. Broken Skin
4. Flesh House
5. Blind Eye
6. Dark Blood
7. Shatter the Bones
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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? Someone's leaving little knots of bones outside Detective Inspector Logan McRae's house, but he's got more pressing things to worry about. Rival drug gangs are fighting over product and territory; two teenage lovers are missing; someone's crippling Asian immigrants; and Logan's 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...
Close to the Bone features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Crime and Mystery, eBooks of the Month, Books of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
Close to the Bone is available in Paperback, Hardback, CD-Audio
Close to the Bone was written by Stuart MacBride and published by Harper an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Close to the Bone has 560 pages
Yes it is part of The Logan McRae Novels series
£9.89
