Broken Skin is the third novel by Stuart Macbride featuring detective sergeant Logan McRae in modern day Aberdeen. This novel continues the trials and tribulations of Logan's career as a policeman, Grampian police force and Logan's troubled relationship with PC Jackie Watson. DS Logan McRae is a man in his thirties, intelligent, resourceful and both dedicated to his job and hating his job at the same time. He is dating PC Jackie Watson and works for either DI Insch, a fat man with a temper or DI Steele a foul mouthed chain smoking woman. This novel begins with the capture of Aberdeen FC's star striker as a rapist on a stakeout by Jackie Watson, she is ...  Read the complete review

This is the second of Stuart Macbride's books Ive read the first being his debut Cold Granite. As with Cold Granite this features DS Logan McRae, his girlfriend PC Jackie Watson and the other assorted police around the station. They are in the midst of investigating a series of increasingly violent rapes, after catching what they think is the rapist they discover that while he was caught by the entrapment process they have employed their suspect is not only a well known local footballer, but has alibis for all the rapes and even worse his lawyer is the universally hated Sandy Moir-Farquharson. The other case being handled is the attempts to find out the ...  Read the complete review