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Close to the Bone
- Narrated by: Steve Worsley
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
From the number-one best-selling author of Shatter the Bones and Birthdays for the Dead, a new crime thriller featuring DS Logan McRae. Detective Inspector Logan McRae is finally getting back on his feet after the events of the last few years. Putting things behind him. Getting better.… But it was never going to last. A body turns up on the outskirts of Aberdeen: burned from the neck up, hands chained behind the back.
More murders follow - all gruesome, and with only one obvious connection. The similarities between the real-life killings and the plot of a best-selling novel about witchcraft seem more than coincidental, but the more Logan digs the more dangerous and blurred the line between fact and fiction becomes. It’s a small step from police officer to victim. And somebody’s got to take it, or everyone will die.
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- peter
- 02-12-14
Great story, twists and turns and great sarcasm
If you could sum up Close to the Bone in three words, what would they be?
Sarcastic, exciting, gripping
What did you like best about this story?
I like the isn't play between the characters, and the banter back and forth. I also think the descriptions of Aberdeen are quite funny.
Have you listened to any of Steve Worsley’s other performances? How does this one compare?
Steve Worlsey is always great. The only reason I put 4 stars rather than 5 is because I have had Stuart mac ride books read by the author and he brings a little more out of the characters (seeing as he invented them), which I suppose is unfair to Steve...
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
This book made me laugh in several occasions, to funny looks from other people on the bus
Any additional comments?
Well worth a read!
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-08-19
More a review of the whole series than just this volume.
Might sound odd, but my favourite characters in all of Stuart McBride’s McRae books are the supporting cast.
Steele is obnoxious and devil-may-care, and would drive you mad in real life, but I love her thieving, badger haired, grumpy self.
Tufty is just Tuftylicious and has many clevers, and is just a daft, over enthusiastic spaniel puppy.
Then there’s the Idiot Rennie, Weird Sheila, Nosferatu, Fatty Inch and the rest of them. It’s a world of misfits that somehow manage to catch seriously psychotic individuals while just about managing not to get fired or killed (barely).
This series are repeat listens for me, and I always enjoy them. They have complex storylines with believable protagonists, well drawn landscapes and a good pace, given feeling and believability by the narrator.
If you can believe that coppers will pinch any food that doesn’t contain rat poison, sleep through surveillance operations, exist on fish suppers, tea and biscuits, and don’t really do much by the book apart from sweat to death in white paper oversuits at crime scenes, you should enjoy the McRae series.
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- raven
- 05-10-16
solid
loved it I've and listened 3 times. the naration is aceptable. and the storyline superb.
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- Gen
- 03-07-18
Recoil, laugh,be horrified listenable romp
Performance perfect as always . By accident and maybe poor planning reading out of sequence but it leads to some ah that explains that moments. Not sure in today’s politically correct police how long Ms Steel would last but here fictional world life would be poorer without her disreputable behaviour, potty mouth and kindness and appalling delivered care and heaven help us wisdom
Logan is complex damaged often wrong but always well intentioned. Must be Catholic with that much guilt and self doubt
Immerse yourself and enjoy
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- Impy
- 02-08-18
Great book
Good storyline, in depth characters, keeps you listening, a few unexpected twists to keep you guessing.
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- Diane H. Smith
- 13-03-17
Another triumph!
The phrase Laugh Out Loud is used all too often these days to describe something which might make you chuckle. Stuart MacBrides books actually DO make me lol! This one is as good as any in the Logan MacRae series ; well crafted, full of filthy D.I. Steel isms and wonderfully narrated by Steve Worsley. Fabulous!
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- G. H. Lewis
- 04-12-15
OK story, variable performance
Not sure whether it was badly orchestrated scene changes or the limited repertoire of character voices, but in places, I struggled to get a handle on what was happening. Almost felt like it was more of a film script, rather than a novel, at times - like a change in visuals was the missing ingredient.
Seriously considered "returning" my purchase for much of the first few hours, but decided to stick with it until the end. A decision I'm probably 70% happy with.
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- Philip Howe
- 14-11-22
Loved it
couldn't wait for the next chapter great story and love the chemistry between the characters.
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- Joanne
- 07-03-13
Laugh out loud humour
I dont know if this book was supposed to be so funny, but it made me laugh out loud on many occassions. An enjoyable listen!
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- Pamela
- 01-12-13
Rivetting
Where does Close to the Bone rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
In the top ten
What did you like best about this story?
The way he ends his book, although he tells you the ending, he leaves you in suspense as to whether his ending is the correct one or is it a loose ends tied up but not actually the real answer, It leaves you wondering....
Which scene did you most enjoy?
The end where you have to decide on the answer
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It was an emotional book as terrible things happened to the victims and it makes you wonder what has happened to make the crimal act in this way.
Any additional comments?
I am now reading all his books in the order they were written, I cant stop reading them,
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