Stuart MacBride Books In Order

Cold Granite

The debut thriller from a bright new Scottish talent set to rival Ian Rankin. It’s DS Logan McRae’s first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn’t get much worse. Four year old David Reid’s body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. There’s a killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood. If that wasn’t enough, Logan also has to contend with a new boss, DI Insch, who doesn’t suffer fools gladly and thinks everyone’s a fool, and his own ex girlfriend, the beautiful but chilly Isobel MacAlister, who also happens to be the chief pathologist. The only good news is WPC ‘Ball Breaker’ Watson, Logan’s new guardian angel. The dead are piling up in the morgue almost as fast as the snow on the streets, and Logan knows time is running out. More children are going missing. More are going to die. If Logan isn’t careful, he’s going to end up joining them. Set in Aberdeen, where the rainy season lasts all year, criminal gangs vie for supremacy on the streets and the oil industry brings an influx of wealth and vice, this is a gritty, powerful and page turning debut thriller by a writer with a wonderfully observant eye and a characteristically Scottish sense of gallows humour.

Dying Light

With this follow up to COLD GRANITE, deemed an impressive debut by Publishers Weekly, Stuart MacBride proves himself to be a rising star of crime fiction and this time, the action is more explosive than ever

A FALL FROM GRACE
On the coast of Scotland, in the Granite City of Aberdeen, Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Bumped to the homicide department’s Screw up Squad after a sting operation gone wrong, Logan will do anything to prove that he doesn t belong there even if it means working overtime on two baffling cases: a fatal act of arson in a squatter s apartment and the murder of a prostitute in the city s notorious red light district.

A DEADLY UPRISING
But when it rains in Aberdeen, it pours and soon Logan is up to his neck in danger. Turns out the two cases might have something dangerously in common. Now, enlisting the help of his former D.I., his forensic pathologist ex girlfriend, and his fellow no hopers on the squad, Logan is charged not only with solving a series of vicious crimes but saving his own life and reputation in the process.

Bloodshot / Broken Skin

Detective Sergeant Logan McRae’s only chance of getting out from under Detective Inspectors Steel and Insch is to get noticed. Not that any of his cases are the type that he wants to get noticed for.

For starters, someone dumped a dying man at the hospital, and the team can t ID him or the person who dumped him. Even worse, McRae is also after a knife wielding eight year old who is stirring up bad press for the department that does little for their case against Robert Macintyre, Aberdeen s beloved star soccer player. They re convinced he s a rapist, but they can t hold him long enough to prove it. Catching these perps is thankless work, and McRae s chances of getting rewarded are as bad as Aberdeen s without their leading goal scorer.

With his third masterful installment in a series that combines suspense with a dark and distinctly Scottish wit, award winning author Stuart MacBride is setting a blistering standard for the next generation of crime writers.

Flesh House

Killers have terrorized Aberdeen in the past Detective Sergeant Logan McRae has the scars to prove it but when body parts show up in a cargo container at the harbor they kick off Scotland’s largest manhunt in twenty years. Last time they were searching for Kenneth Wiseman, a brutal killer who terrified the country, who was eventually caught only to be acquitted eleven years later on a technicality. Now he s gone missing, people are dying, and the police are certain he s at work again.

As the violence escalates, DS McRae is forced to work with the senior officers assigned to the original case who have returned to Aberdeen to finish what they started. With decades of secrets and lies coming to light, the only thing that s certain is that the city will never be the same again.

Once again, award winning author Stuart MacBride fuses his signature dry wit with a dark and twisting plot to tell his most searing and accomplished story yet.

Blind Eye

Blind Eye, the new Logan McRae thriller set in gritty Aberdeen, Scotland, from Stuart MacBride, the award winning author of Cold Granite and Flesh House, finds the long suffering detective sergeant on a brutal new case.

It’s summer in the Granite City, but even the sunshine can t improve the mood at Grampian Police Headquarters. Aberdeen s growing Polish community is under attack from a serial offender who leaves mutilated victims to be discovered on building sites eyes gouged out and the sockets burned. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is assigned to the investigation, code named Operation Oedipus, but with the victims too scared to talk, it s going nowhere fast. When the next victim turns out to be not a newly arrived Eastern European, but Simon McLeod, owner of the Turf n Track betting shop and long the uncontested ringleader of Aberdeen s shadier element, Logan suddenly finds himself caught up in a brave new world of drug wars, prostitution rings, and gun running courtesy of Aberdeen s oldest and most vicious crime lord.

Stuart MacBride s signature combination of hard hitting suspense and dry humor has won him many fans, and Blind Eye is another stellar entry in this rising star s multiple award winning series.

Dark Blood

The new Logan McRae novel set in gritty Aberdeen from the bestselling author of Cold Granite and Blind Eye. Richard Knox has served his time, so why shouldn’t he be allowed to live wherever he wants? Yes, in the past he was a violent rapist, but he’s seen the error of his ways. Found God. Wants to leave his dark past in Newcastle behind him and make a new start. Or so he says. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn’t exactly thrilled to be part of the team helping Knox settle into his new Aberdeen home. He’s even less thrilled to be stuck with DSI Danby from Northumbria Police the man who put Knox behind bars for ten years supposedly here to ‘keep an eye on things’. Only things are about to go very, very wrong. Edinburgh gangster Malk the Knife wants a slice of the development boom Donald Trump’s golf course is bringing to the Granite City, whether local crime lord Wee Hamish Mowat likes it or not. Three heavies from Newcastle want a ‘quiet word’ with DSI Danby about a missing mob accountant. And Richard Knox’s dark past isn’t done with him yet!

Shatter The Bones

The new Logan McRae thriller set in gritty Aberdeen, from the bestselling author of Cold Granite and Dark Blood. ‘You will raise money for the safe return of Alison and Jenny McGregor. If you raise enough money within fourteen days they will be released. If not, Jenny will be killed.’ 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’re in all the gossip magazines, they’ve got millions of YouTube hits, everyone loves them. But their reality TV dream has turned 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. The media want action; the public displays of grief and anger are reaching fever pitch. Time is running out, but DS Logan McRae and his colleagues have nothing to go on: the kidnappers haven’t left a single piece of forensic evidence. The investigation is going nowhere. It looks as if the price of fame just got a lot higher!

The 45% Hangover

Audio CD, Harper Whole Story Audiobooks

Halfhead

Terrifying serial killer thriller set in the gritty Glasgow of the near future, from the bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. Glasgow, not too far in the future. A new punishment has been devised for the perpetrators of serious crimes one that not only reduces the prison population but also benefits society at large. The process is known as Halfheading: the offender’s lower jaw is removed and they are lobotomized. They are then put to work as cleaners in municipal areas like hospitals, where they serve as a warning to all that crime doesn’t pay. But for one Halfhead, it seems the lobotomy hasn’t quite succeeded. Six years after her surgery, Dr Fiona Westfield ‘wakes up’ surrounded by the butchered remains of a man she has just brutally killed. As her mind slowly begins to return, she sets out on a quest for vengeance. William Hunter, Assistant Section Director of the ‘Network’ a military wing of the police attends the crime scene left behind by the newly awakened Halfhead. Sherman House is a run down concrete housing development full of undesirables and Hunter and his team quickly find themselves in a firefight with the locals. With the help of old comrades and a new friend in the form of prickly but attractive Detective Sergeant Josephine Cameron, Will gets on the trail of the killer. But before long the investigation leads back to a terrible tragedy in his own past, as well as to a terrifying conspiracy to sow violence and misery among Glasgow’s most vulnerable citizens.