Broken Skin

Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride drops you back into Aberdeen noir with DS Logan McRae juggling two ugly cases at once: a brutal body dumped at A&E and a serial rapist targeting women across the Granite City. It’s a gritty Scottish crime thriller that moves fast, hits hard, and keeps its moral questions uncomfortably close to the surface.

As Logan digs into the murder, the trail points towards the local bondage scene and a shadowy orbit of sex shops, pornographers and private secrets. At the same time, his partner Jackie “Ball Breaker” Watson goes undercover as bait in the rape investigation—until the main suspect turns out to be an Aberdeen football idol, and the pressure to pin it on him threatens to derail everything.

Perfect for readers who love dark police procedurals, flawed detectives, and crime fiction set in Scotland with sharp dialogue and bite.

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