Broken Skin ( Logan McRae #3 )

The Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. In this third DS Logan McRae thriller, The Granite City’s seedy side is about to be exposed… A crime of passion, or cold-hearted murder? A serial rapist is leaving a string of tortured women behind him, but while DS Logan McRae’s girlfriend, PC Jackie ‘Ball Breaker’ Watson, is out acting as bait, he’s trying to identify a blood-drenched body dumped outside Accident and Emergency. Logan’s investigations suggest someone in the local bondage community has developed a taste for violent death, and he soon finds himself dragged into the twilight world of pornographers, sex-shops and S&M. Meanwhile, the prime suspect in the rape case turns out to be Aberdeen Football Club’s star striker, and he has an alibi for every attack. Logan thinks they’ve got it horribly wrong, but can he get anyone to listen before the real rapist strikes again? Especially as Jackie is convinced the footballer’s guilty and she’s hell-bent on a conviction at any cost… Nearly bouncing back from a transfer,Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is still looking at nothing but dead ends. His only chance ofescapinghiscurrent postis to get noticed. Not that any of the cases hes working on are the type that you want to get noticed for. For starters, someone dumped a dying man outside the hospital. McRaes boss D.I. Roberta Steel and her team cant 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 departments accusations against Robert Macintyre, Aberdeens star soccer player and another media darling. WPC Jackie Watson, McRaes girlfriend, is convinced Robert is a serial rapist, but they cant even hold him let alone charge him when the whole city thinks hes being framed. Catching these perps is thankless work, and even if he does, it seems like McRaes chances of getting off Steels team are as bad as Aberdeens without their leading goal scorer. 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. 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... 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 turns 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. The Aberdeen Football Club's star striker has an alibi for every attack. Could they really have got it so badly wrong? There's a rapist prowling Aberdeen'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 turns 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 Aberdeen, Scotland, Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae is assigned the thankless task of investigating a John Doe abandoned at a local hospital, while searching for the eight-year-old hoodlum responsible for the death of an elderly man Logan investigates the local bondage community when films turn up showing that someone has developed a taste for violent death