Skin and Bone

DS Vicky Dodds Scottish Crime Thrillers, Book 4

A dead boy. A missing girl. A dark mystery.

When a teenage boy is abducted from a Dundee street in broad daylight, DS Vicky Dodds and her team are put on the case.

The drowned body is found with just one clue—an inscrutable code scratched onto his arm.

Vicky must hunt across Dundee for the brutal killers, drawing on old friends and family to probe the deep corners of the dark web and Scottish gangs.

As Vicky learns to doubt who she can trust, she connects with a new friend, someone who can maybe help her resolve her own murky past.

From the acclaimed author of the DI Fenchurch series, Skin & Bone is an unyielding police procedural that explores the darkest corners of the human psyche, perfect for fans of Ian Rankin, LJ Ross, JD Kirk and Stuart MacBride.

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Compelling, likable characters

This was my first V Dodds book and I was pleasantly surprised: Great pacing and plotting, great dialogue and most importantly many complex, believable characters.

A couple of small things that bothered me: 1) The title, which seems totally unrelated to any of the themes; and 2) the ending, which is embarrassingly abrupt and embarrassingly cliche.