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    Close to the Bone
    Close to the Bone
    Close to the Bone
    Audiobook14 hours

    Close to the Bone

    Written by Stuart MacBride

    Narrated by Steve Worsley

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    The eighth Logan McRae novel in the No.1 bestselling crime series from Stuart MacBride.

    Every murder tells a story. But not every victim tells the truth.

    ‘A terrific writer … McRae is a delight’ The Times

    Sticks and stones may break your bones…

    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 on DI Logan McRae’s doorstep, but he’s got bigger concerns. 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 and gained the unwelcome attention of the local crime boss.

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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 17, 2013
    ISBN9780007497843
    Author

    Stuart MacBride

    Stuart MacBride is the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae and Ash Henderson novels. His work has won several prizes and in 2015 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Dundee University. Stuart lives in the north-east of Scotland with his wife Fiona, cats Grendel, Onion and Beetroot, and other assorted animals.

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