Four-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dead... 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 thriller is from a writer with an observant eye and a Scottish sense of humour.

Cold Granite

A collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season - from the No. 1 bestseller Stuart MacBride

 On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me.

 Twelve days, twelve stories.

 Meet Fat Billy Partridge, possibly the worst cat-burglar ever; newbie drug-dealer Brian, who probably shouldn't be taking advantage of the job's fringe benefits; Philippe, a chef with anger-management issues and lots of very sharp knives; Mr Unwin, the undertaker with the golden touch; and Lord Peter Forsyth-Leven, MSP, learning the hard way that having it all means you've got so much more to lose.

 Thieves, drug dealers, lap-dancers, gangsters and even the odd good guy populate these twelve interlinked tales of crime and retribution set around the festive season.

Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas (short stories)

A brilliantly twisty, 80-page novella from the No. 1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. Including an extract from his new Logan novel, THE MISSING AND THE DEAD.

 It's the night of the big Referendum, and all Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae has to do is find a missing 'No' campaigner. Should be easy enough.

 But, as usual, DCI Steel has plans of her own. As the votes are counted there's trouble brewing in the pubs and on the streets of Aberdeen.

 Logan's picked up a promising lead, but all is not quite what it seems, and things are about to go very, very wrong.

The 45% Hangover [A Logan and Steel novella]

A new Logan McRae thriller from the bestselling author of Cold Granite and Dying Light, set in gritty Aberdeen.

Broken Skin

The eighth Logan McRae novel in the No.1 bestselling crime series from Stuart MacBride.

 Every murder tells a story. But not every victim tells the truth. 

 'A terrific writer . McRae is a delight' The Times

 Sticks and stones may break your bones.

 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 on DI Logan McRae's doorstep, but he's got bigger concerns. 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 and gained the unwelcome attention of the local crime boss.

 When another body turns up, the similarities between these murders and the plot of a bestselling novel seem like more than just a coincidence. And perhaps those little knots of bones are more important than they look.

Close to the Bone

Écosse, paysages glacés de l'hiver avec pluies, neiges et verglas. C'est là, dans la petite ville d'Old Castle, qu'officie le détective Constable Ash Henderson. Sa tâche : retrouver le tueur en série que les tabloïds appellent le "Birthday Boy", sa spécialité étant de kidnapper des jeunes filles de moins de treize ans, de les torturer et, le jour de leur anniversaire, d'envoyer une carte postale à leurs parents pour les rendre fous. Flanqué d'Alice McDonald, une profileuse qui sombre dans l'alcool - sans avoir le vin gai - pour oublier les horreurs auxquelles elle est confrontée, Ash a enfin le ferme espoir de retrouver le monstre lorsque des restes des victimes sont découverts, ouvrant ainsi de nouvelles pistes de recherches. C'est qu'un terrible secret le motive : Rebecca, sa propre fille, a été enlevée par l'assassin. Le révéler à quiconque, c'est se voir viré de l'enquête et ça, il n'en est pas question pour lui. Livre dur, à la limite de l'insoutenable, Surtout, ne pas savoir nous plonge dans un univers où tueur et flic se côtoient sur les deux versants de la même horreur.

Surtout, ne pas savoir

The sixth gripping thriller in the No.1 bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. 

 Scotland's finest see first-hand how starting again can be murder.

 'MacBride is a damned fine writer' Peter James

 Everyone deserves a second chance.

 Richard Knox has done his time and seen the error of his ways. He wants to leave his dark past behind, so why shouldn't he be allowed to live wherever he wants?

 Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn't thrilled about having to help a violent rapist settle into Aberdeen. Even worse, he's stuck with the man who put Knox behind bars, DSI Danby, supposedly to 'keep an eye on things'.

 Only things are about to go very, very wrong.

 Edinburgh gangster Malk the Knife wants a slice of Aberdeen's latest development boom. Local crime lord Wee Hamish Mowat has ominous plans for Logan's future. And Knox's past isn't finished with him yet.

Dark Blood

The ninth Logan McRae thriller from the No. 1 bestseller Stuart MacBride.

 'Dark and griping. A riveting page-turner' Independent on Sunday

 One mistake can cost you everything.

 A little girl's body washes up just outside the sleepy coastal town of Macduff, kicking off a major manhunt. Officially, the investigation is out of Sergeant Logan McRae's hands, but DCI Steel's Major Investigation Team, drafted in from Aberdeen, is getting nowhere fast.

 Steel is running out of ideas and time. She wants Logan back on her team, and doesn't care how she gets him there.

 One thing is clear: there are dangerous predators lurking in the wilds of Aberdeenshire, and not everyone's getting out of this alive.

The Missing and the Dead

The second crime thriller in the No.1 bestselling Logan McRae series from Stuart MacBride. 

 Even the darkest crimes will come to light.

 'Stuart MacBride is a damned fine writer' Peter James

 Crime never sleeps.

 Down by the docks, in the dead of night, a woman is hunted down and killed. For DS Logan McRae, it's just the beginning of another nightmare.

 Neither does this killer.

 As the day dawns and the body count rises, Logan realises that this isn't just an isolated murder. It's far more disturbing than that.

 A killer is on the loose and wreaking havoc - and Logan is running out of time to stop them.

 And the clock is ticking .

 Praise for 'Dying Light':

 'Another brilliant, riveting police procedural. I'm green with envy!' R D Wingfield

 'The story is violent and bloody; some of the crimes are vicious and MacBride doesn't hold back on the details. But there is plenty of dark humour, and a warmth to the portrayal of the police officers which lightens an otherwise grim tale by this very talented writer' Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph

Dying Light

A heart-stopping crime thriller and the fourth consecutive No. 1 Bestseller from the author of the Logan McRae series and Birthdays for the Dead.
          
            He''s back... Eight years ago, ''The Inside Man'' murdered four women and left three more in critical condition - all of them with their stomachs slit open and a plastic doll stitched inside.
          
            And then the killer just ... disappeared.
          
          Ash Henderson was a Detective Inspector on the initial investigation, but a lot can change in eight years. His family has been destroyed, his career is in tatters, and one of Oldcastle''s most vicious criminals is making sure he spends the rest of his life in prison.
          Now a nurse has turned up dead, a plastic doll buried beneath her skin, and it looks as if Ash might finally get a shot at redemption. At earning his freedom.
          At revenge.

A SONG FOR THE DYING

Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae has been bumped to D.I. Roberta Steel's "Screw-up Squad" after a raid he led on a warehouse rumored to be full of stolen property ended with no arrests and one officer critically injured. The backstabbing, limelight-stealing, laziest D.I. on Aberdeen's police force, Steel's team is made up of the "no-hopers," the most worthless or inexperienced members of the homicide department, and Logan will do anything to prove he doesn't belong there. Including working overtime on two baffling cases: the murder by arson of six people, and the beating to death of a prostitute down by the docks, not a high priority compared to the fire. At least not until another prostitute ends up dead.
   
  Although both cases seem simple on the surface---turns out the fire's victims are part of a drug dealer's inner circle, and what fate is to be expected for working girls in Aberdeen's red-light district? --- in Stuart MacBride's hands, what's going on in this rainy Scottish city is bound to be much more complicated than it appears.
   
  A detailed authenticity combines with a dark Scottish sense of humor and a lively cast of characters in MacBride's unputdownable second novel, confirming his status as a rising star of crime fiction.

Mortelle Ecosse

A gripping standalone thriller from the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series.

 Beware of the dark.

 Welcome to the Misfit Mob - where Police Scotland dumps the officers it can't get rid of, but wants to. Officers like DC Callum MacGregor, lumbered with all the boring go-nowhere cases. So when an ancient mummy is found at the Oldcastle tip, it's his job to track down its owner.

 But then Callum uncovers links between his mummified corpse and three missing young men, and life starts to get a lot more interesting.

 No one expects the Misfit Mob to solve anything, but right now they're all that stands between a killer's victims and a slow lingering death. Can they prove everyone wrong before someone else dies?

A Dark So Deadly

A new Logan McRae thriller from the bestselling author of Cold Granite, Dying Light and Broken Skin, set in gritty Aberdeen.

Flesh House

A Sunday Times bestseller for the w/c 11th January 2021

 A house of secrets.As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith's home is falling into the sea. The trouble is: that's where he's been hiding the bodies.

 A killer on the run.It's too dangerous to go near the place, so there's no way of knowing how many people he's murdered. Or how many more he'll kill before he's caught.

 An investigator with nothing to lose.As more horrors are discovered, ex-detective Ash Henderson is done playing nice. He's got a killer to catch, and God help anyone who gets in his way.

 'Stuart MacBride's deft plotting and whipcrack dialogue, along with a strong sense of place, make The Coffinmaker's Garden a must read. If you like your serial killers with lashings of dark humour, this is for you' Peter Robinson, no. 1 bestselling author of the DCI Banks series

 'The Coffinmaker's Garden is brilliantly creepy, with the most cleverly conceived crime scene I've ever read. His legions of fans will love this - it's an unmistakable Stuart MacBride cocktail of dark violence and even darker humour' Jane Casey, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Cutting Place

The Coffinmaker’s Garden

Stuart MacBride, né le 27 février 1969 à Dumbarton, dans la région du West Dunbartonshire, en Écosse, est un écrivain écossais, auteur de roman policier et de thriller.

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