Shatter the Bones
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Shatter the Bones
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Narrated by:
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Steve Worsley
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By:
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Stuart MacBride
About this listen
A bestseller from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. The seventh DS Logan McRae thriller is a gripping page-turner in which fame and fortune crash head-on with crime and punishment.
No suspects. No clues. No rest for the wicked.
'You will raise money for the safe return of Alison and Jenny McGregor. If you raise enough money within fourteen days they will be released. If not, Jenny will be killed.'
Aberdeen's own mother-daughter singing sensation are through to the semi-finals of TV smash-hit Britain's Next Big Star. But their reality-TV dream has turned into a real-life nightmare.
The ransom demand appears in all the papers, on the TV, and the internet, telling the nation to dig deep if they want to keep Alison and Jenny alive.
Time is running out, but DS Logan McRae and his colleagues have nothing to go on: the kidnappers haven't left a single piece of forensic evidence and there are no witnesses.
It looks as if the price of fame just got a lot higher…
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Critic reviews
Great Author this is a series, highly recommend reading/listening from the start
Brilliant as usual !
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Twists and turns through the book mean that you are left guessing who dunit until the last few pages.
Get it - you wont regret it
Another great book from MacBride
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Very good as usual
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Despite the gore, profanities and sometimes infuriating incompetence of certain characters, this novel is really funny. I especially loved the descriptions of people in the book, and have got some of the insults stored for future use!
The narration was great too. It was really nice to hear a Scottish novel read by a Scottish narrator. I have never read (or listened to) anything by Stuart MacBride before, but I'm now a fan, and am just about to download another of the Logan McRae series!
Fast and funny. A great read!
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Absolutely brilliant
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Would you consider the audio edition of Shatter the Bones to be better than the print version?
In a way, yes. When reading, you put your imagination to how people talk, how their accent sounds. When a books is read out loud to you, particularly by someone who can do all the accents as brilliantly as Steve Worsley, it brings everything alive. For those of you not familiar with the Aberdonian accent, it can be quite strong, so listen carefully.Who was your favorite character and why?
I've always loved Logan McRae. He's had some tough times with a dodgy love life and a career dogged with incompetent colleagues and senior officers who care more for politics than policing, but he has a heart of gold and a caring nature and always tries to do the right thing.Which character – as performed by Steve Worsley – was your favourite?
Logan - Steve really seemed to connect with him as a character right down to the bone (no pun intended).Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Absolutely. As with all McBride's books, you are torn this way and that, one minute raging with anger, the next howling with laughter at his dark gallows humour.Any additional comments?
There were a couple of continuity errors, getting the names / gender wrong, etc, but that didn't detract at all. It is a hard hitting story, and consequently there is a LOT of bad language, so don't say you weren't warned.A hard listen, but worth it.
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Excellent
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Would you listen to Shatter the Bones again? Why?
Yes. It's a fascinating story, with real characters. Macbride pulls you right in and doesn't turn you loose.What does Steve Worsley bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
Steve's phrasing fleshes out the well-drawn characters and enhances Macbride's lovely little comic touches.Macbride does it again!
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Narrator Steve Worsley is good, although I find with his Aberdeen accent some of the characters sound very similar and yet he is very good at the English accents. However, I was delighted when he was back to narrating in these books, as I totally missed the previous two books that the Writer narrated. I bought the audible book 'Blind Eye' and tried to listen to it and eventually had to stop as I found Stuart MacBride's narration far too quick and he seemed to bark out all of the speaking parts until I could no longer listen. Hence the reason I missed the full story Blind Eye and the book after, obviously missing some of character storylines along the way. I do love his books and just hope he sticks to the writing in future.
I am so looking forward to the next Logan McCrae installment audible book I have just purchased.
Good Story
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Brilliant as always!
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