This House of Burning Bones

There’s no point screaming - we've only just begun. It’s not going well for NE Division: half the force is off sick, all leave’s been cancelled, someone’s firebombed a migrant hostel and there’s a massive. climate change protest march happening this Saturday. With officers dropping like flies, Detective Inspector Logan McRae has to kick off a major murder investigation with a skeleton staff of misfits, idiots and malingerers - AKA: DS Steel’s team - until the top brass can arrange backup from other divisions. But as bad as everything seems, there’s something far. more sinister lurking in the heat-haze of a sweltering Aberdeen summer: something that’s been building for years. Something that longs to sing its horrible song. And it’s clear that things are going to get much, much worse before this is over. Praise for Stuart MacBride:. 'Dark and brilliantly written' Linwood Barclay. 'MacBride is a damned fine writer' Peter James. 'Crime fiction of the highest order' Mark Billingham.