The very first Logan McRae novel in the No.1 bestselling crime series from Stuart MacBride. DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets.The very first Logan McRae novel in the No.1 bestselling crime series from Stuart MacBride. DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets.Winter in Aberdeen: murder, mayhem and terrible weather…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. Three-year-old David Reid’s body is discovered in a ditch: strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. And he’s only the first. There’s a serial killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood.Soon the dead are piling up in the morgue almost as fast as the snow on the streets, and Logan knows time is running out. More children are going missing. More are going to die. And if Logan isn’t careful, he could end up joining them.Praise for Cold Granite:‘Ferocious and funny, this is Tartan Noir at its best’ Val McDermid‘A riveting and gruesome debut’ Telegraph‘A gripping debut’ MirrorPraise for Stuart MacBride:‘Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order’ Mark Billingham‘MacBride is a damned fine writer – no one does dark and gritty like him’ Peter JamesStuart MacBride is the No.1 bestselling author of the DS Logan McRae series. His novels have won him the CWA Dagger in the Library, the Barry Award for Best Debut Novel, and Best Breakthrough Author at the ITV3 crime thriller awards. Stuart’s other works include Halfhead, a near-future thriller, Sawbones, a novella aimed at adult emergent readers, and several short stories. He lives in the north-east of Scotland with his wife, Fiona, and cat, Grendel.• BLOODY. BRILLIANT. MACBRIDE: a Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller in hardback, a Top Ten bestseller in paperback• The Logan McRae books have sold over 1.1 million copies to date• TV rights to the Logan McRae novels have been optioned by Coastal Productions, the makers of Wire in the Blood• Cold Granite was the winner of the Barry Award for Best First Novel in 2006• MacBride won the 2007 CWA Dagger in the Library and ‘Breakthrough Author of the Year’ at ITV’s 2008 Crime Thriller Awards• Combines a gritty sense of place and a powerful sense of the macabre with laugh-out-loud humourCompetition: Even Dogs In The Wild; Coffin Road; in a house of lies; broken ground; fatal promise; . Stuart MacBride;B A Paris; Val McDermid; Lee Child; Ian Rankin; Peter May; Michael Connelly; Jo Nesbo; Ann Cleeves; James Oswald; Peter Robinson; Peter James;
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