Brilliant as usual !

Loved this book as it throws you straight into the story , great writing , love Logan & Steels character is hilarious! , I did have to rewind 30 seconds the first time the robots voice was used thinking my phone had gone on the blink lol!
Great Author this is a series, highly recommend reading/listening from the start

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Another great book from MacBride

I have enjoyed all of MacBride's books and was eagerly awaiting this release. I was not disappointed.

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

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Very good as usual

I really like the narrator’s voice, brings the book to life. Yes it can be a bit predictable, but aren’t most who done it books.

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Fast and funny. A great read!

A great, fast paced story with brilliant characters. This is the first book in ages that has made me want to work longer just so I could listen a bit more!

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!

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Absolutely brilliant

This is the best Logan McRae book that I have listened to. I cannot fault it. It has credible characters with full, consistent personalities, it's laugh out loud funny, edge of your seat exciting and with totally unexpected plot twists. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

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A hard listen, but worth it.

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.

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Excellent

Still listening at 4am couldn't switch off well read and well written touches of humour just to keep the roller coaster running

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Macbride does it again!

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.

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Good Story

Enjoyed this book. The story is very good and Stuart MacBride is such a good writer. I really like the characters.
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.

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Brilliant as always!

I came upon this series by accident and am now so desperately seeking to catch up, that I’ve started actually reading paperbacks again! That said, the readers are superb! I have to say though, that my favourite reader is the author himself. I especially loved his DI Steel; an anti-hero I all but revere now! She was late in entering this book and I worried she’d been dropped, or was ”away” for some reason, but I needn’t have feared 🤣. I love you, Auntie Roberta, you brilliant and utter coo! Thank you dear author, for this fantastic series Drama, peril, backstabbing, humour, wit and wisdom, with totally believable characters and whodunnit-provoking plots. I absolutely love these books! More, more, more! 😘

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