num_pages: 594
description: Nearly bouncing back from a transfer Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is still looking at nothing but dead ends. His only chance of escaping his current post is 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.
language: English
title: Broken Skin
publisher: HarperCollins