The third consecutive No 1 bestselling crime novel from the author of the DI Logan Mc Rae series & Birthdays for the Dead Sticks & stones may break your bones The first body is chained to a stake strangled & stabbed with a burning tyre around its neck But is this a gangland execution or something much darker? Someone's leaving little knots of bones on DI Logan Mc Rae's doorstep but he's got bigger concerns Rival drug gangs are fighting over product & territory; two teenage lovers are missing; someone's crippling Asian immigrants; & Logan's been lumbered with an ambitious new Detective Sergeant & gained the unwelcome attention of the local crime boss When another body turns up the similarities between these murders & the plot of a bestselling novel seem like more than just a coincidence & perhaps those little knots of bones are more important than they look