Book description
A bestseller from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. The seventh DS
Logan McRae thriller is a gripping page-turner in which fame and fortune
crash head-on with crime and punishment.
No suspects. No clues. No rest for the wicked.
'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, 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… 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
Stuart MacBride is the No. 1 bestselling author of the DS Logan McRae
series. His novels have won him the CWA Dagger in the Library, the Barry
Award for Best Debut Novel, and Best Breakthrough Author at the ITV3
crime thriller awards. Stuart's other works include Halfhead, a
near-future thriller, Sawbones, a novella aimed at adult emergent
readers, and several short stories. He lives in the north-east of
Scotland with his wife, Fiona, and cat, Grendel.
