by StuartMacBride (Author)
A new Logan McRae thriller from the bestselling author of 'Cold Granite' and 'Dying Light', set in gritty Aberdeen. In the pale grey light of a chilly February, Aberdeen is not at its best! There's a rapist prowling the city's cold granite streets, leaving a string of tortured women behind. But while DS Logan McRae's girlfriend is out acting as bait, he's dealing with the blood-drenched body of an unidentified male, dumped outside Accident and Emergency. When a stash of explicit films turn up, all featuring the victim, it looks as if someone in the local bondage community has developed a taste for violent death, and Logan gets dragged into the twilight world of pornographers, sex-shops and S&M. To make matters worse, when they finally arrest the Granite City Rapist, Grampian Police are forced by the courts to let him go: Aberdeen Football Club's star striker has an alibi for every attack. Could they really have got it so badly wrong? Logan thinks so, but the trick will be getting anyone to listen before the real rapist strikes again. Especially as his girlfriend, PC Jackie 'Ball Breaker' Watson, is convinced the footballer is guilty and she's hell-bent on a conviction at any cost...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: New title
Publisher: HarperCollins From the bestselling author of Dying Light
Published: 01 May 2007
ISBN 10: 0007250754
ISBN 13: 9780007250752
Book Overview:
Praise for Broken Skin:
`Compelling reading ... a tribute to MacBride's storytelling skill' Sunday Telegraph
`Grim, gritty and great fun' Daily Sport
Praise for Stuart MacBride:
`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
`MacBride is a damned fine writer - no one does dark and gritty like him' Peter James
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.