A review by nonna7
Close to the Bone by Stuart MacBride

5.0

Reading Stuart Macbride is kind of like riding a rollercoaster inside a fun house. Not only do you go up and down at often dizzying and breakneck speeds, but you come face to face with strange characters, mirrors that distort everything and, sometimes, ghosts and weird noises. Acting DI Logan McRae is still living in a "caravan" (aka trailer) after his flat was destroyed by a fire two years ago. Someone is leaving bones tied with ribbon at his front step. He thinks they're just chicken bones until he learns otherwise.... Someone has "necklaced" a homeless veteran of the Kuwait war, tortured him and set him on fire. Meanwhile, a gang war over high grade cannabis is threatening to break out, and a film of a popular book about witches is being filmed in a former porn studio. Macbride is one of the best crime writers out there. His dark humor is twisted beyond belief. There aren't a lot of writers who can make you laugh, be outraged, then cry and laugh again - often in the same paragraph. This is why I NEVER miss the newest Stuart Macbride.