This House of Burning Bones — Stuart MacBride

'MacBride is a masterful storyteller with a terrific eye for detail and razor-sharp wit. This House of Burning Bones is an absolute must-read.' â€" Karin Slaughter, author of This Is Why We Lied

The Granite City is ready to burn, and all it takes is a single spark . . .

In the heat of a blistering summer, Aberdeen's police are struggling: half the force is off sick, leave has been cancelled, someone's firebombed a hotel full of migrants, and there's a massive protest march happening this Saturday.

With officers dropping like flies, Detective Inspector Logan McRae is forced to juggle cases and run a major murder investigation with a skeleton staff of misfits, idiots and malingerers until the top brass can arrange back-up from other divisions.

It doesn't help that the Aberdeen Examiner has just been bought by Natasha Agapova, a tabloid media tycoon hell-bent on blaming local police for everything. And she's more than happy to fan the flames.

But, as bad as everything seems, it's all about to get much, much worse . . .

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Praise for Stuart MacBride:

'Stuart MacBride is an automatic must-read for me . . . always fast, hard, authentic â€" and different' â€" Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series

'Dark and brilliantly written' â€" Linwood Barclay, author of I Will Ruin You

'MacBride is a damned fine writer' â€" Peter James, author of Picture You Dead

'Crime fiction of the highest order' â€" Mark Billingham, author of The Last Dance