Stuart MacBride
Nearly bouncing back from a transfer,Â Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is still looking at nothing but dead ends. His only chance ofÂ escapingÂ hisÂ current postÂ is to get noticed. Not that any of the cases heâ€™s working on are the type that you want to get noticed for.,Â ,For starters, someone dumped a dying man outside the hospital. McRaeâ€™s boss D.I. Roberta Steel and her team canâ€™t get an ID on the man, the person who dropped him off, or the car. McRae's second case is hardly any better. It involves a knife-wielding eight-year-old who is not only still at large but getting all kinds of sympathy in the newspapers. That kind of press does little for the departmentâ€™s accusations against Robert Macintyre, Aberdeenâ€™s star soccer player and another media darling. WPC Jackie Watson, McRaeâ€™s girlfriend, is convinced Robert is a serial rapist, but they canâ€™t even hold him let alone charge him when the whole city thinks heâ€™s being framed. Catching these perps is thankless work, and even if he does, it seems like McRaeâ€™s chances of getting off Steelâ€™s team are as bad as Aberdeenâ€™s without their leading goal scorer.,Â ,With his third masterful installment in a series that combines fast-paced suspense with a dark, distinctly Scottish sense of humor, Stuart MacBride has firmly established himself as a major crime-writing talent.
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