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  • A Litter of Bones: A Scottish Crime Thriller

  • DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, Book 1
  • By: JD Kirk
  • Narrated by: Angus King
  • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (3,464 ratings)

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A Litter of Bones: A Scottish Crime Thriller

By: JD Kirk
Narrated by: Angus King
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Publisher's summary

Was the biggest case of his career the worst mistake he ever made?

Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed "Mister Whisper", earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process.

Now, he spends his days working in Glasgow's Major Investigations Team, and his nights reliving the horrors of what he saw.

And what he did.

When another child disappears a hundred miles north in the Highlands, Jack is sent to lead the investigation and bring the boy home.

But as similarities between the two cases grow, could it be that Jack caught the wrong man all those years ago?

And, if so, is the real Mister Whisper about to claim his fourth victim?

A Litter of Bones is the explosive debut crime thriller novel from JD Kirk, an exciting new voice in Scottish crime fiction.

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brilliant

loved this book, great characters, narration, storyline, the lot. Suspenseful with surprises and really creepy at times, brilliant writing a really gritty story. Logan is my new hero he just nudged Jack Reacher out of the way let's hope the next one is as good.

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The narrator is the star!

A LITTER OF BONES is narrated by Angus King (not the US senator from Maine with the same name). This is my first book with Angus King as narrator. He is unbelievably excellent. I would listen to audio books just to marvel at his narration.

A Litter of Bones is an excellent crime thriller. It is gruesome. Also, cat lovers will likely not appreciate it. DCI Logan is a tough Scottish cop.

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Gratuitous Brutality, Predictible Writing & Plot

I love the narrator and was really hoping for a gripping thriller but this is gruesome without being suspenseful. The torture is too much. I have been reading 5 books a week since I was a kid able to grab novels from my Dad's library. There's no book I won't give a fair shot and nothing that's so shocking that I won't entertain. But being able to describe the most horrible torture you can dream up doesn't make you a groundbreaking talent, it reaches a point where you seem to be competing for brutality prizes without putting in the character work. I absolutely knew who the killer would be. I don't always expect that to be a surprise. But have you ever heard the beginning of a sentence and hoped against hope that the end wouldn't be trite and a predictable cliche? A pedestrian plot and hackneyed phrasing cannot be salvaged with grotesque cruelty. (I did buy the next one, hoping that the writing would improve. One third of the way in and I'm rewinding because it lost my attention then fastforwarding once again through truly gratuitous brutality.)

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A fun & action packed story

This book was fun. I loved the characters, the dry humor & of course, the main characters’ sexy Scottish accent! Often the dialect was difficult to understand but I always knew what they meant. The subject matter (the kidnapping & killing of little boys) was a serious one to be sure but the story was written in such a way that it took you on a fun ride right through to the end. I really enjoyed this book & could not stop listening.

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Unexpected Humor

Entertaining. The narrator has the right accent for the Scottish Highland and love the well written humorous banter. The story is a on the bit slow side and anticlimactic, but still entertaining and refreshing after all them shoot em up, tough cop books I've heard lately.

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new author for me

I really enjoyed listening to this book. The story was interesting made you want to keep going. The narrator was excellent.

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Advice for the author

The overuse of “fuck” and it’s derivatives in the first half of the book shows a lack of imagination in my view. It wasn’t over done in the second half though. The brief descriptions of the thoughts of Connor were more those of an adult than of a child of six. At the end, reverse the order of the visit to Hamza in the hospital and the good bye party. Good suspense with a surprise at the end. I hope you will write more stories about this detective.

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entertaining!

the story was well written and kept me guessing but it was the reading and the performance of the novel that truly kept me entertained. I would definitely recommend this audible.

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Dear Audible -

GET MORE KIRK! Hope it's the beginning of a very long series. Angus King great as well.

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Really Good

First, I loved the Scottish dialogue & references to Fort William, Ben Nevis , Inverness. The descriptions of the homes & neighborhoods was spot on. Took me back there.
The story line is good. Surprises, excellent suspensusful scenes & I liked the character development. The topic, child abduction & murder, is intense but short of not reading liner notes & seeing a picture of the book jacket, a potential reader should figure that out from just the title. For the Detective genre , all in all, very good.

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