Stuart MacBride
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English
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Roberta Steel has recently been demoted after being caught fitting up a suspect. The trouble is, the man she got sent down has had his sentence quashed - now he's back on the streets. And women are being attacked again. But if DS Steel goes anywhere near him his lawyers will get her thrown off the force for good. The Powers That Be won't listen to her - not after what happened last time. Besides, she's got more than enough ongoing cases to keep her...
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English
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The tabloids call him the Birthday Boy. He snatches girls just before their 13th birthdays. One year later the family get a homemade card in the post - 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!' scrawled in blood-red ink above a Polaroid photograph of the missing girl. Detective Constable Ash Henderson is seconded to the investigation.
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The Logan McRae novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Sergeant Logan McRae is trouble. His missing-persons investigation has just turned up a body in the woods - naked, hands tied behind its back, and a bin bag duct-taped over its head. The Major Investigation Team charges up from Aberdeen, under the beady eye of Logan's ex-boss Detective Chief Inspector Steel. And, as usual, she wants him to do her job for her.But it's not going to be easy: a new Superintendent is on her way up from the Serious Organised...
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The Logan McRae novels volume 8
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English
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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 with an ambitious new Detective Sergeant, a mountain of paperwork, and the unwelcome attention of his superiors and the local crime boss.
5) Flesh house
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Logan McRae volume 4
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Panic strikes the Granite City. 20 years ago 'The Flesher' was butchering people all over the Uk until Grampian's finest put him away. But 11 years later he was out on appeal. Now he's missing and people are dying again.
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Harper
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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SHATTER THE BONES: 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 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...
8) Cold granite
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Logan McRae volume 1
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English
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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.
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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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 nightmare, with bodies, and bullets, and tiny wee boats. And a dangerous hard man who?s meant to be dead? BAD HEIR DAY Why is DI Steel...
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Harper
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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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: 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...
13) The blood road
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English
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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 he been all this time? Why did he disappear?...
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CID isn't what it used to be. It's a been a bad week for acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae. Every time his unit turns up to anything interesting, DCI Steel's Major Investigation Team waltzes in and takes over, leaving CID with all the dull and horrible jobs. Like dealing with Mrs Black - who hates her neighbour, the police, and everyone else. Or identifying the homeless man who drank himself to death behind some bins. Or tracking down the wife...
15) Broken skin
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Series
Logan McRae volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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The Granite City?s seedy side is about to be exposed? A serial rapist is leaving a string of tortured women behind him, but while DS Logan McRae?s girlfriend, PC Jackie ?Ball Breaker? Watson, is out acting as bait, he?s trying to identify a blood-drenched body dumped outside Accident and Emergency.Logan?s investigations suggest someone in the local bondage community has developed a taste for violent death, and he soon finds himself dragged into the...
16) Dying light
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Series
Logan McRae volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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It?s summertime in Scotland: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying? It?s summertime in the Granite City: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying? It starts with Rosie Williams, a prostitute, stripped naked and beaten to death down by the docks - the heart of Aberdeen?s red light district. For DS Logan McRae it?s a bad start to another bad day. Rosie won?t be the only one making an unscheduled trip to the morgue....
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Pub. Date
2015
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English
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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. Then a little girl's body washes up just outside the sleepy town of Banff, kicking off a massive manhunt. The Major Investigation Team is up from...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith's home is falling into the North Sea. But the crumbling headland has revealed what he's got buried in his garden: human remains. With the storm still raging, it's too dangerous to retrieve the bodies and waves are devouring the evidence. Which means no one knows how many people Smith's already killed and how many more he'll kill if he can't be stopped. The media are baying for blood, the...
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Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Eight years ago, the Inside Man abducted and killed four women. He left another three in critical condition, their stomachs slit open and a plastic doll stitched inside. Then he disappeared. Until now. Ash Henderson was a Detective Inspector on the initial investigation. Things haven't gone well since: 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...