This House of Burning Bones

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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, 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

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781035064878
Published: November 2025

Number of pages: 640
Width: 131 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 40 mm

Publisher: Pan Macmillan