Caboodle Firsts: Get one of 100 copies of Stuart MacBride's next book

We're giving 100 Caboodlers the chance to read the chilling and compulsive new novel from Stuart MacBride before it's out in April 2022.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

It's been seventeen months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no nearer catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, the top brass are demanding results, but the investigation is sinking fast.

Now isn't the time to get distracted with other cases, but Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh doesn't have much choice. When Benedict Strachan was just eleven, he hunted down and killed a homeless man. No one's ever figured out why Benedict did it, but now, after sixteen years, he's back on the streets again - battered, frightened, convinced a shadowy 'They' are out to get him, and begging Lucy for help.

It sounds like paranoia, but what if he's right? What if he really is caught up in something bigger and darker than Lucy's ever dealt with before? What if the Bloodsmith isn't the only monster out there? And what's going to happen when Lucy goes after them?

Praise for Stuart MacBride:

"A brutal, visceral read, laced with the blackest of humour and travelling to some very dark places" – The Guardian

"A magnetic mix of creepy places, dark humour, horror and violence" – The Sun

Read the first two chapters

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This competition ended on 21/10/2021

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100 x people will receive a copy of Stuart MacBride's No Less the Devil

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Closing date: 11:59pm, Thursday 21st October 2021.
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