Close to the Bone Logan McRae

Published Dec. 19, 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:: 978-0-00-734429-1

(2 reviews)

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? 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 …

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? 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...

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Stephen Hayes reviewed Close to the Bone Logan McRae by Stuart MacBride

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4 stars

A book that may appeal both to lovers of police procedurals and lovers of whodunits.

Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae of the Aberdeen police is called to the scene of a murder where the modus operandi seems to have links to a film being made of a popular novel on witches and witchhunts. but his superiors think he should be concentrating on the hunt for a pair of missing teenagers. More bodies are found, which also seem to have links to the them of the film, but also seem to be related to turf wars among local drug dealers. The director of the film is a former police officer, which makes the investigation easier in some ways, but complicates it in in others, and solving the murder cases seems to depend on knowledge of the plot of Witchfire, the book on which the film is based.

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4 stars

Very enjoyable, but as it is part of a sequence some of it was very confusing, really needs to be read in order to make sense of what is going on. A different setting to most books of this genre.