This House of Burning Bones

In the heat of a blistering summer, Aberdeen?s police are struggling: half the force is off sick, leave has been cancelled, someone?s firebombed a hotel full of migrants, and there?s a massive protest march happening this Saturday. With officers dropping like flies, Detective Inspector Logan McRae is forced to juggle cases and run a major murder investigation with a skeleton staff of misfits, idiots and malingerers until the top brass can arrange back-up from other divisions. It doesn?t help that the Aberdeen Examiner has just been bought by Natasha Agapova, a tabloid media tycoon hell-bent on blaming local police for everything. And she?s more than happy to fan the flames. But, as bad as everything seems, it?s all about to get much, much worse . . .