Close To The Bone

Close To The Bone by Stuart MacBride is a sharp, darkly funny crime novel that drops you straight into Aberdeen, where DI Logan McRae can’t catch a break and you won’t want to put the pages down.

A body is found chained to a stake, brutally staged with a burning tyre at its throat. While rumours swirl about gangland payback, Logan’s juggling rival drug crews, missing teenage sweethearts, and a string of vicious attacks on Asian immigrants. Then someone starts leaving small knots of bones on his doorstep — and when another murder echoes the storyline of a bestselling book, the case takes an unsettling turn that feels far too personal.

Ideal for readers who love gritty Scottish noir, police procedural tension, and morally tangled investigations with a streak of gallows humour.

Step back into MacBride’s Aberdeen and see what the bones are trying to say.