Stuart MacBride
1) Cold Granite
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 1
Description
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,...
2) Dying light
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae has been bumped to the "Screw-up Squad," a team made up of 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...
3) Flesh house
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2008
Description
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...
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Pub. Date
2013
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"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...
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
c2011, 2012
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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. But their reality-TV dream turns into a real-life nightmare when a ransom demand appears in all the papers, on TV, and the internet, telling the nation to dig deep if they want to keep them alive. Time is running out -- and DS Logan McRae and his colleagues have nothing to go on.
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Ash Henderson novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
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.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Stuck on a squad with all the other officers no one else wants, but who cant be fired, DC Callum MacGregor and his colleagues accidentally get handed the biggest murder investigation Oldcastle has ever seen and work together to solve the case, bringing a serial killer to swift justice - Novelist.
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The new Logan McRae novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of CLOSE TO THE BONE and A SONG FOR THE DYING. 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....
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Sergeant Logan McRae's team find a body dumped in the woods -- but is it the missing businessman they've been searching for, or something far more sinister? It doesn't help that his ex-boss is taking over the case, a new Superintendent has it in for him, and Professional Standards are looming. Even worse: Aberdeen's criminal overlord, Wee Hamish Mowat, is dying and rival gangs all over the UK are eying his territory. There's a war brewing and Logan's...
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Ash Henderson novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret. Five years ago his daughter, Rebecca, disappeared on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: homemade, with a Polaroid stuck to the front. Rebecca, strapped to 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 years, always just before their thirteenth birthday,...
11) Blind eye
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
DCI Logan McRae investigates the torture and murder of several businessmen from the Polish community in Aberdeen, Scotland, trying to discern whether it is truly a hate crime or instead a veiled gangland turf war.
12) Now we are dead
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Pub. Date
2017.
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Detective Chief Inspector Roberta Steel got caught fitting up Jack Wallace - thatâs why they demoted her and quashed his sentence. Now heâs back on the streets and women are being attacked again. Wallace has to be responsible, but if Detective Sergeant Steel goes anywhere near him, his lawyers will get her thrown off the force for good. The Powers That Be wonât listen to her, not after what happened last time. According to them, sheâs...
13) The blood road
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
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 be been all this time? Why did he dsappear?...
14) Dark Blood
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Richard Knox has served his time, so why shouldn't he be allowed to live wherever he wants?
15) Bloodshot
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Aberdeen, Scotland, Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae is assigned the thankless task of investigating a John Doe abandoned at a local hospital, while searching for the eight-year-old hoodlum responsible for the death of an elderly man.