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Shatter the bones

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Crime & mystery
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: Harper
Publication Date: 17/02/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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'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 START. 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 Stuart MacBride: 'Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order' Mark Billingham 'Some of the grittiest crime-writing in the field' Independent 'Admirers of tough, modern crime novels will be in seventh heaven -- or should that be hell?' Express 'Ferocious and funny' Val McDermid 'Hard-hitting prose with a bone-dry humour and characters you can genuinely believe in, Stuart MacBride's novels are a real treat' Simon Kernick 'Hurray for a new McRae' Sun 'A terrific writer ! McRae makes John Rebus seem like a compliant wimp ! bodies abound, blood flows freely and McRae is a delight' The Times 'One of the most disturbing and uncompromising novels in the highly successful Logan McRae series ! admirers of tough, modern crime novels will be in seventh heaven -- or should that be hell?' Express 'Some of the grittiest crime-writing in the field ! The McRae books sport some of the pithiest snapshots of urban life this side of Irvine Welsh ! etched in the darkest of hues and with dialogue so sharp you might cut yourself' Independent 'Another brilliant, riveting police procedural. I'm green with envy!' R D Wingfield 'Stuart MacBride goes straight for the jugular with a tight, thrilling novel' Glasgow Herald 'This intelligent, exciting police procedural should make the leading writers of the genre start looking over their shoulders' Sunday Telegraph 'An impressive debut ! an edge-of-your-seat page-turner' Publishers Weekly 'A gritty, roller-coaster, in-your-face thriller' Aberdeen Press and Journal 'A cracking new writer on the crime scene who hooks you from the first page and never lets you go. The action is ferocious and the pace unrelenting' Northern Echo 'Compelling reading' Telegraph 'Gripping' Daily Mirror

Title: Shatter the bones
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Contributors: By (author) Stuart MacBride

ISBN 13: 9780007344246
ISBN 10: 0007344244

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: Harper
Publication Date: 17/02/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: Crime & mystery
NBS Classification: Crime & Thriller
Dewey Classification: 823.92 (DC23)

Format: Paperback
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Thickness: 33mm
Weight: 320g