Bred in the Bone
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4.8 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“Gangland violence explodes off the page” as two female detectives cross paths in Scotland’s criminal underworld (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Glasgow Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod has one gangster in the mortuary and another, Glen Fallan, behind bars for allegedly taking him out. But fighting for conviction isn’t going to be easy. This case may be more personal for McLeod than she’s letting on. And Fallan might not even be guilty.
Private investigator Jasmine Sharp has a stake in Fallan’s future, too. The gangland enforcer once moved in the same dangerous shadows that her mysterious father lived and died in. And the strange bond Fallan had with her mother is something no one in Sharp’s family ever dares to discuss.
As McLeod battles her demons and Sharp chases her ghosts, these two very different detectives will ultimately confront the secrets that have entangled both of their fates—by descending into the Glasgow underworld where vengeance spans generations and everyone has a score to settle.
“A polished stylist who spikes his smooth wordsmithery with a quirky Scottish brogue.” —Marilyn Stasio, TheNew York Times
“Should cement Brookmyre’s reputation as one of today’s top Scottish crime writers.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Glasgow gangland violence explodes off the page in Brookmyre's superb third novel featuring PI Jasmine Sharp and Det. Supt. Catherine McLeod (after 2013's When the Devil Drives). Stevie Fullerton, gangster extraordinaire, had his hands in myriad criminal pies, yet looked squeaky-clean on paper. When he's found shot to death at a car wash, Catherine and her team assume it's an act of retribution by a rival gangster, despite a lack of chatter about the murder beforehand. The case seems to solve itself when Glen Fallan a thought-to-be-retired gangland enforcer and, coincidentally, the man who killed Jasmine's father decades earlier is caught all but red-handed. But nothing is as simple as it seems, as Jasmine is sucked into the investigation of a man and a life that have unnerving ties to her own. Catherine, bent on making this conviction stick, will do anything to solve the case, dredging up a 25-year-old murder in the process. Peppered with choice Glaswegian slang and oozing with just the right combination of black humor and sobering commentary on the city's dark underbelly, this entry should cement Brookmyre's reputation as one of today's top Scottish crime writers.
