Stuart MacBride

DCI Logan McRae returns to his job in Aberdeen CID after recuperating from a stab wound and finds himself assigned to a brutal serial killer case. Martin's Press.

Cold Granite

The gritty new standalone crime novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Shatter the Bones and Dark Blood Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret! Five years ago his daughter, Rebecca, went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: homemade, with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front -- Rebecca, strapped to a chair, gagged and terrified. Every year another card: each one worse than the last. The tabloids call him The Birthday Boy. He's been snatching girls for twelve years, always in the run-up to their thirteenth birthday, sending the families his homemade cards showing their daughters being slowly tortured to death. But Ash hasn't told anyone about Rebecca's birthday cards -- they all think she's just run away from home -- because if anyone finds out, he'll be taken off the investigation. And he's sacrificed too much to give up before his daughter's killer gets what he deserves!

Birthdays for the Dead

Rosie Williams, a prostitute, is stripped naked and beaten to death. But, Rosie won't be the only one making an unscheduled trip to the morgue. Across the city, six people are burning to death, the doors and windows screwed shut from the outside. And despite Logan's best efforts, it's not long before another prostitute turns up on the slab.

Dying Light

The Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. In this third DS Logan McRae thriller, The Granite City's seedy side is about to be exposed... A crime of passion, or cold-hearted murder? A serial rapist is leaving a string of tortured women behind him, but while DS Logan McRae's girlfriend, PC Jackie 'Ball Breaker' Watson, is out acting as bait, he's trying to identify a blood-drenched body dumped outside Accident and Emergency. Logan's investigations suggest someone in the local bondage community has developed a taste for violent death, and he soon finds himself dragged into the twilight world of pornographers, sex-shops and S&M. Meanwhile, the prime suspect in the rape case turns out to be Aberdeen Football Club's star striker, and he has an alibi for every attack. Logan thinks they've got it horribly wrong, but can he get anyone to listen before the real rapist strikes again? Especially as Jackie is convinced the footballer's guilty and she's hell-bent on a conviction at any cost...

Broken Skin

When the serial killer known as "The Inside Man" returns after an eight-year hiatus, Ash Henderson, the Detective Inspector on the case who was framed for the murders, finally gets a shot at freedom—and revenge. 10,000 first printing.

A Song for the Dying

The stunning new thriller featuring Ash Henderson from No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Stuart MacBride. Not to be missed.

The Coffinmaker's Garden

A Dark So Deadly

Sergeant Logan McRae is trouble. His missing-persons investigation has just turned up a body in the woods - naked, hands tied behind its back, and a bin bag duct-taped over its head. The Major Investigation Team charges up from Aberdeen, under the beady eye of Logan's ex-boss Detective Chief Inspector Steel. And, as usual, she wants him to do her job for her.But it's not going to be easy: a new Superintendent is on her way up from the Serious Organised Crime Task Force, hell-bent on making Logan's life miserable; Professional Standards are gunning for Steel; and Wee Hamish Mowat, head of Aberdeen's criminal underbelly, is dying - leaving rival gangs from all over the UK eying his territory.

In the Cold Dark Ground

From the No. 1 bestselling author of Shatter the Bones and Birthdays for the Dead, a new crime thriller featuring DS Logan McRae. The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and 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 outside Detective Inspector Logan McRae's house, but he's got more pressing things to worry about. Rival drug gangs are fighting over product and territory; two teenage lovers are missing; someone's crippling Asian immigrants; and Logan's been lumbered with an ambitious new Detective Sergeant, a mountain of paperwork, and the unwelcome attention of his superiors and the local crime boss. When another body turns up, it looks as if the similarities between these murders and the plot of a bestselling novel are more than just a coincidence. And perhaps those little knots of bones are more important than they look...

Close to the bone

Alison and Jenny McGregor, Aberdeen's own mother-daughter singing sensation, are through to the semi-finals of TV smash-hit Britain's Next Big Star. They've got millions of YouTube hits, everyone loves them-- until their reality-TV dream turns into a real-life nightmare. The ransom demand appears in all the papers, on the TV, and the Internet, telling the nation to dig deep if they want to keep Alison and Jenny alive.

Shatter the Bones

Flesh House

Logan McRae's personal history is hardly squeaky clean, but now that he works for Professional Standards he's policing his fellow officers. When Detective Inspector Bell turns up dead in the driver's seat of a crashed car it's a shock to everyone. Because Bell died two years ago, they buried him. Or they thought they did. As an investigation is launched into Bell's stabbing, Logan digs into his past. Where has he been all this time? Why did he disappear? And what's so important that he felt the need to come back from the dead?

The blood road

No Less the Devil

Dark blood

A detective no one believes in. A killer with nothing to lose... A gripping standalone thriller from the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series.

One mistake can cost you everything...When you catch a twisted killer there should be a reward, right? What Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae gets instead is a 'development opportunity' out in the depths of rural Aberdeenshire. Welcome to divisional policing - catching drug dealers, shop lifters, vandals and the odd escaped farm animal. Then a little girl's body washes up just outside the sleepy town of Banff, kicking off a massive manhunt. The Major Investigation Team is up from Aberdeen, wanting answers, and they don't care who they trample over to get them. Logan's got enough on his plate keeping B Division together, but DCI Steel wants him back on her team. As his old colleagues stomp around the countryside, burning bridges, Logan gets dragged deeper and deeper into the investigation. One thing's clear: there are dangerous predators lurking in the wilds of Aberdeenshire, and not everyone's going to get out of this alive...

The missing and the dead

Blind Eye

The third consecutive No.1 bestselling crime novel from the author of the DI Logan McRae series and Birthdays for the Dead.

Close to the Bone (Logan McRae, Book 8)

Halfhead

Martin Milne wird bereits seit drei Tagen vermisst, als Sergeant Logan McRae und sein Team eine Leiche finden. Der Tote liegt nackt, gefesselt und mit einer Plastiktüte über dem Kopf in einem Wald nahe der schottischen Küste. Doch es ist nicht Milne – es ist dessen Geschäftspartner. Ganz in der Nähe hatte man kurz zuvor die Studentin Emily Benton erschlagen aufgefunden. Hängen die Fälle womöglich zusammen? Die Ermittlungen leitet DCI Roberta Steel, die mit ihren Leuten aus Aberdeen in das Küstenstädtchen Banff kommt. Steel war früher McRaes Vorgesetzte, und das Verhältnis der beiden ist äußerst angespannt. Nun müssen sie sich zusammenraufen, um die beiden Morde aufzuklären. Oder sind es längst drei Morde? Von Martin Milne fehlt nämlich noch immer jedes Lebenszeichen ...

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