Close to the Bone (Logan McRae, Book 8)** SIGNED with DOODLE** The third consecutive No. 1 bestselling crime novel from the author of the DI Logan McRae series and Birthdays for the Dead. The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and stabbed, with a burning tyre around its neck. But is this a gangland execution or something much darker? Someones leaving little knots of bones outside Detective Inspector Logan McRaes house, but hes got more pressing things to worry about. Rival drug

When the shadow of death passes over Nazia and Sharifs party

The investigation is complicated for Dalgliesh by his love for Emma Lavenham

crime writing

disappeared

passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats

a long and terrifying chain of events unfurls with reverberations far beyond Linnas case

one sticks to her story whilst the other keeps changing her mind

Giving Up the Ghost is a story of childhood that is also a piece of history

Cross-dressing Aline becomes obsessed with the Baghdad Blogger

to a remote country house where his 'host' is the sinister lawyer

Cut off from the mainland by miles of water

finds himself under increasing pressure when it becomes clear that the chief suspect is the town's star quarterback