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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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From the author of Cold Granite and Dark Blood, the new Logan McRae thriller takes a look at the terrors of reality television celebrity
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.
Alison and Jenny McGregor—Aberdeen's own mother-daughter singing sensation—are through to the semi-finals of TV smash-hit Britain's Next Big Star. They're in all the gossip magazines, they've got millions of YouTube hits, and everyone loves them. 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. The media want action; the public displays of grief and anger are reaching fever-pitch. 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. The investigation is going nowhere. It looks as if the price of fame just got a lot higher. Unabridged.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
His best yet.,
By Slipping Away (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shatter The Bones (Paperback)
Dark, disturbing and laugh out loud funny. Stuart MacBride at his best. A very topical story based around our obsession with celebrity and Idol type shows. The book is peppered throughout with MacBride's dry wit and although DI Steele doesn't play a major part there's enough to keep fans happy. The story keeps you interested to the last page and has a believable conclusion. Definitely recommended for fans of McDermid, Rankin and Peter Robinson.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Shatter the Bones,
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This review is from: Shatter The Bones (Hardcover)
Alison McGregor and her six-year-old daughter, Jenny, Aberdeen's huge favorites to win the competition on the hit tv show Britain's Next Big Star, have made it to the semi-finals. Suddenly they are kidnapped, and the ransom note soon received says they will be killed if an indeterminate ransom is not paid within fourteen days. Contributions are made across the country from their millions of fans. The police are stymied - - there are no witnesses, and no trace of forensic evidence can be found on either the ransom notes or the gruesome videos which the police are examining, and there are absolutely no clues as to who is behind the crime. Needless to say, the media, and the public, are in an uproar, and the detectives are being hounded by both, as well as by the head of the CID and other investigative agencies.There is a second story line dealing with a routine drug bust which goes seriously awry, with the drug dealer managing to escape despite handcuffs and the presence of numerous police officers designed to prevent just that from happening. The ramifications of this are far-reaching and brutal, and very personal for DS Logan MacRae. This latest entry in this wonderful series moves at a slower pace than I remembered the earlier books being, perhaps reflective of the actual way in which serious crime investigations happen in real life. But trust me, by the time the reader approaches the wrap-up of this well-written tale of celebrity culture run amok, the reader will be turning the pages swiftly to reach the suspense-filled ending as time is running out and the deadline approaches. Logan MacRae, his significant other, Samantha, and the cops on the Grampian Police force who readers have met in the earlier books are wonderfully well drawn. MacRae is a very human and believable protagonist, and I can't wait for his return in the next series entry. Highly recommended.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Not sure...,
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This review is from: Shatter The Bones (Hardcover)
So I normally like Stuart MacBride's books quite well but this one..I'm not sure, seriously, if DS Logan McRae was working for me and got beaten up as many times, I think I would have to let him go.. I know it's fiction but how many times can a copper get beaten up before someone realizes that maybe he needs a new job?? So it got a bit tedious, still not a bad book but not as good as previous ones!!
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