Cold Granite: The very first book in the gripping No.1 bestselling crime thriller detective series! (Logan McRae, Book 1)

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Detective Sargeant Logan McRae has just returned to work for Aberdeen police, following a year's medical leave after a confrontation with a notorious serial killer. It's not a gentle reintroduction, by any means. A child's decomposing remains are found in a ditch near the River Don and another young boy is reported missing shortly thereafter. It's looking like a vicious serial killer is active in Aberdeen. Meanwhile, the corpse of a gangster from Edinburgh is found floating in the harbour, minus its kneecaps.

Highly recommended. I’m definitely a fan and now I’m on the hunt for a copy of DYING LIGHT, Logan McRae #2. Now We Are Dead by Stuart MacBride: Undiscovered Scotland Book Review". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk . Retrieved 14 November 2018. Onto the case, and the chilling, sometimes gruesome, abductions and mutilations of children are investigated by Aberdeen’s police force. A secondary investigation involves the knee-capping and dumping of an Edinburgh chancer. It’s incredibly well-plotted, with red herrings and misdirection all along the way. Instead of your run-of-the-mill “someone’s a serial killer” thread, there are genuine suspects who are counted in and counted out like some sort of judicial hokey-kokey which makes a genuinely interesting and often surprising read. Dead things had always been special to him. Their delicate coldness. The feel of the skin. The ripe, sweet smell as they decayed. As they returned to God.” It's been long enough since I last read this series that I now have to start over to catch up - good thing they're good books!It all begins, barely before McRae can warm a seat at the station, with the discovery of a dead child. Then another. Then another child goes missing. The window for a live recovery of a child taken is a very small amount of time, and McRae soon finds himself in a pressure cooker to find something, anything, that will put him on the right trail.

Stenhouse, David (2 May 2008). "One man's meat - Stuart MacBride interview". The Scotsman . Retrieved 9 November 2018.I enjoyed the character of DI Insch, McRae’s somewhat quirky superior officer. He embodied some old-fashioned police values with a refreshingly independent turn of mind. His insatiable appetite for lollies made him endearingly human. DS Logan McRae is an appealing mix of experience and naiveté. While he is a skilled investigator with excellent instincts, he is almost childlike when it comes to personal and professional relationships. Another aspect of the story I liked was the setting. It takes place in Aberdeen, Scotland, and the city itself truly becomes like a secondary character. The author intertwines the city, the weather, the regional slang, etc. with the story, and makes it come alive. After it is revealed that Steel fabricated evidence against an alleged rapist, she is investigated by Professional Standards ( " In the Cold Dark Ground"), [21] [22] she is demoted to Detective Sergeant, [12] but in the novel " Now We Are Dead", she is exonerated when it is found the alleged rapist was working in a team who gave him false alibis. By the third book after her demotion ( " All That's Dead"), she is still a Detective Sergeant and working closely with McRae again.

This is a list of characters from the Logan McRae series of detective novels by the Scottish writer Stuart MacBride. They are all fictional characters that have appeared in more than one novel in the series. the stories move through real time and as such, some of the earlier novels are set in the Grampian Police area of responsibility, which later becomes Police Scotland. In addition to containing a damn good mystery story, Stone Granite is enfused (isn't that a great word!) with quite clever humor as well as a good deal about the town of Aberdeen and the differences between several of Scotland's larger cities. Being pretty ignorant about such things, I very much enjoyed their inclusion.a b Morrison, Alan (27 April 2008). "Don of the detectives; Stuart MacBride and DS McRae; guilty of recidivism". The Sunday Herald. ProQuest 331317378. The character development is written well and sets up the series. The story is fairly complex and left me wondering & trying to guess whats happenes next. At times, I guessed correctly but still enjoyed how the author led me there. The character interaction and dialog has a wide range of emotions. It’s been a hot, humid August in Minnesota, and there’s nothing like a cold, wet thriller to chill me to the bone. Cold Granite certainly fits the bill! Aberdeen, the third-largest city in Scotland, is known as “the Granite City,” and statistically is the coldest city in the UK. I love a thriller where the weather almost becomes another character, and Mr. McBride certainly manages to make Mother Nature a key figure. If it’s not raining, it’s miserably damp and misty. If it’s not doing either of those, it’s snowing. Another complication for McCrae is watching his ex-girlfriend, the medical examiner, walking around like God’s gift to all mankind. ”Isobel MacAlister turned up looking as if she’d just stepped off a catwalk: long Burberry raincoat, dark-green trouser suit, cream high-collared blouse, delicate pearl earrings, her short hair artistically tousled. Wellington boots three sizes too big for her … She looked so good it hurt.” Hot Dog! I have myself another fabulous series to dig into. I love discovering these older series as there will be books waiting for me whenever I get the urge to revisit the characters. In addition, there is something about some of these more “vintage” novels that you do not see in books published today. Some sort of “IT” factor that is difficult to explain.

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… Opening: Dead things had always been special to him. Their delicate coldness. The feel of the skin. The ripe, sweet smell as they decayed. As they returned to God. Stuart MacBride’s stunning debut novel Cold Granite propels DS Logan McRae into the detective hall of fame in no time at all.But there was always the writing (well, that's not true, the writing only started two chapters above this one). I fell victim to that most dreadful of things: peer pressure. Two friends were writing novels and I thought, 'why not? I could do that'.