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Shatter the Bones

By: Stuart MacBride
Narrated by: Steve Worsley
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A bestseller from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. The seventh DS Logan McRae thriller is a gripping page-turner in which fame and fortune crash head-on with crime and punishment.

No suspects. No clues. No rest for the wicked.

'You will raise money for the safe return of Alison and Jenny McGregor. If you raise enough money within fourteen days they will be released. If not, Jenny will be killed.'

Aberdeen's own mother-daughter singing sensation are through to the semi-finals of TV smash-hit Britain's Next Big Star. But their reality-TV dream has turned into a real-life nightmare.

The ransom demand appears in all the papers, on the TV, and the internet, telling the nation to dig deep if they want to keep Alison and Jenny alive.

Time is running out, but DS Logan McRae and his colleagues have nothing to go on: the kidnappers haven't left a single piece of forensic evidence and there are no witnesses.

It looks as if the price of fame just got a lot higher…

 Action & Adventure Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Police Procedural Psychological Thriller Fiction Crime Suspense Funny Witty Exciting Money
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Critic reviews

Praise for Shatter the Bones:

‘It’s gripping and gritty … the tension builds layer on layer’ Express

‘MacBride at his best’ Northern Echo

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

‘Ferocious and funny, this is Tartan Noir at its best’ Val McDermid
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I came upon this series by accident and am now so desperately seeking to catch up, that I’ve started actually reading paperbacks again! That said, the readers are superb! I have to say though, that my favourite reader is the author himself. I especially loved his DI Steel; an anti-hero I all but revere now! She was late in entering this book and I worried she’d been dropped, or was ”away” for some reason, but I needn’t have feared 🤣. I love you, Auntie Roberta, you brilliant and utter coo! Thank you dear author, for this fantastic series Drama, peril, backstabbing, humour, wit and wisdom, with totally believable characters and whodunnit-provoking plots. I absolutely love these books! More, more, more! 😘

Brilliant as always!

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loved it. Exciting, funny and sad all in one. Another great listen. Brilliantly read the characters are so alive!

Full of action and realism

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I love Stuart McBride books. I love the narration, the humour in the books, the gripping stories. I found this one a bit harrowing. The child abuse lines here gave me nightmares . I did finish the book but was very disturbed by it. That said it's extremely well written, pacey gripping and full of drama.

disturbing

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Another utterly compelling, darkly funny MacBride tale, too horrid to continue, too fascinating to stop.

Gritty, nasty, and in places very funny.

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I love these characters - so over the top. A bit of an antidote to the far too nice of some detectives.

Brilliant

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