Close to the Bone: The eighth book of the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling Scottish crime thriller Logan McRae detective series
<p>The third consecutive No.1 bestselling crime novel from the author of the DI Logan McRae series and Birthdays for the Dead.</p><p>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?</p><p>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.</p><p>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…</p>