Stuart MacBride
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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 Thieves, drug dealers, lap-dancers, gangsters and even the odd good guy populate these twelve tales exploring the seedier side of life in North East Scotland.
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Birthdays for the Dead: 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,...
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From the No. 1 bestselling author of THE MISSING AND THE DEAD comes the short novel: 22 DEAD LITTLE BODIES, plus two short stories: STRAMASH and DI STEEL'S BAD HEIR DAY, and a novella: THE 45% HANGOVER, all featuring his most popular characters - DS Logan McRae and DCI Roberta Steel. They say 'small is beautiful', but as Stuart MacBride demonstrates in these four tales, it can also be dark, violent, disturbing, and sometimes really quite rude. So...
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Two bloody brilliant short stories from No. 1 bestselling crime writer Stuart MacBride, featuring DS Logan McRae and his boss DI Steel
STRAMASH: Something fishy is happening on the isle of Jura.
DS Logan McRae gets a phone call from DI Steel ordering him to come to the island at once. One freezing night's sleep in a hatchback and two storm-battered ferries later, Logan arrives - but there's no sign of Steel.
She's lumped him in the middle of a...
25) Dark Blood
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The Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. In this sixth DS Logan McRae thriller, Scotland's finest see first-hand how starting again can be murder... 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....
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Someone's preying on Aberdeen's growing Polish population. The pattern is always the same: men abandoned on building sites, barely alive, their eyes gouged out and the sockets burned. With the victims too scared to talk, and the only witness a paedophile who's on the run, Grampian Police is getting nowhere fast. The attacks are brutal, they keep on happening, and soon DS Logan McRae will have to decide how far he's prepared to bend the rules to get...
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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...
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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 Thieves, drug dealers, lap-dancers, gangsters and even the odd good guy populate these twelve tales exploring the seedier side of life in North East Scotland.
29) Lords a Leaping
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Lord Peter Forsyth-Leven, MSP, is about to discover that having it all just means you've got more to lose... Another story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season.
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Billy Partridge wasn't really cut out to be a cat burglar, but it was "do the job, or come up with thirteen grand by Thursday, or have both legs shattered." "Do the job" seemed the least worst option. But he's about to find out just how bad the least worst option can be... The first story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season
31) Gold Rings
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There is never a good time to look upon the face of a dead loved one. But Mr Unwin has dedicated his life to helping the bereaved. While helping himself at the same time... Another story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season
32) Geese a Laying
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The maternity ward: the last place you'd associate with criminal activity. Which makes it as good a place as any to carry it out... Another story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season.
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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 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...
35) French Hens
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Being a top-flight chef can be stressful. Thankfully a professional kitchen throws up some unique opportunities for body disposal... Another story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season
36) Ladies Dancing
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Kayleigh's a professional. But lap-dancing has rules. And when someone breaks the rules... Another story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season.
37) Maids a Milking
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Brian's about to discover that life as a drug dealer can have hidden benefits. But he might come to wish he'd never taken advantage of them... Another story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season.
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Two bloody brilliant short stories from No. 1 bestselling crime writer Stuart MacBride, featuring DS Logan McRae and his boss DI Steel STRAMASH: Something fishy is happening on the isle of Jura. DS Logan McRae gets a phone call from DI Steel ordering him to come to the island at once. One freezing night's sleep in a hatchback and two storm-battered ferries later, Logan arrives – but there's no sign of Steel. She's lumped him in the middle of a policing...
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From the No. 1 bestselling author of THE MISSING AND THE DEAD comes the short novel: 22 DEAD LITTLE BODIES, plus two short stories: STRAMASH and DI STEEL'S BAD HEIR DAY, and a novella: THE 45% HANGOVER, all featuring his most popular characters - DS Logan McRae and DCI Roberta Steel. They say 'small is beautiful', but as Stuart MacBride demonstrates in these four tales, it can also be dark, violent, disturbing, and sometimes really quite rude. So...
40) Swans a Swimming
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James Kirkhill thinks he has the best job in the world: coaching the girls' swimming team. But he's about to get into some very deep water... Another story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season.