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

Twelve years. Twelve dead girls. Thirteen will be unlucky for some.

 The Number One bestselling crime thriller from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. A bloody, brilliant and brutal story of murder, kidnap and revenge.

 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: home-made, 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 just before their thirteenth birthday, killing them slowly, then torturing their families with his homemade cards.

 But Ash hasn't told anyone what really happened to Rebecca - they all think she ran away - 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 murderer gets what he deserves.

Birthdays for the Dead

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)

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

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

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

Broken Skin

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.

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