This House of Burning Bones

By Stuart MacBride

The Granite City is ready to burn, and all it takes is a single spark...

In the heat of a blistering summer, Aberdeen's police are struggling: half the force is off sick, all leave has been cancelled, someone's firebombed a hotel full of migrants, and there's a massive protest march happening this Saturday.

With officers dropping like flies, Detective Inspector Logan McRae is forced to juggle cases and run a major murder investigation with a skeleton staff of misfits, idiots and malingerers until the top brass can arrange back-up from other divisions.

It doesn't help that the Aberdeen Examiner has just been bought by Natasha Agapova, a tabloid media tycoon, hell-bent on blaming local police for everything. And she's more than happy to fan the flames.

But, as bad as everything seems, it's all about to get much, much worse . . .

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Praise for Stuart MacBride:

'Dark and brilliantly written' - Linwood Barclay, author of I will Ruin You

'MacBride is a damned fine writer' - Peter James, author of Picture You Dead

'Crime fiction of the highest order' - Mark Billingham, author of The Last Dance

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1035064855
• ISBN13: 9781035064854
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: MacMillan UK
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up