Stuart MacBride
Stuart MacBride was born in Dumbarton, but moved to Aberdeen when he was two. His parents run an offshore and remote site catering company and his brother is a head chef in Dublin, but MacBride bucked the family trend and studied architecture in Glasgow. A variety of jobs followed, including stints on an oil rig, a graphic designer, a short-lived attempt at acting, before becoming and web developer and IT manager.
MacBride's first published novel, Cold Granite, is the fifth book he wrote, and was quickly snapped up by publishers HarperCollins. Now on a three-book deal, his second novel Dying Light was published in 2006, and he is currently working on the fourth in the series. The novels, named after and set in MacBride's native Aberdeen, feature Detective Sergeant Logan McRae.
- Broken Skin
As February's leaden skies cast a grey pall over the granite streets of Aberdeen, DS Logan McRae is assigned a particularly unsavoury dead-end case - an unidentified body dumped outside a hospital by an unidentified motorist, showing signs of brutal S&M activity. - Cold Granite
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. - Dying Light
It's summertime in the Granite city: the sun is shining, the sky is blue, & people are dying. It starts with a prostitute, stripped naked & beaten to death down by the docks. Despite DS Logan MacRae's best efforts, it's not long before another body turns up on the slab. - Flesh House
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.
Bibliography
- Cold Granite - 2005
- Dying Light - 2006
- Broken Skin - 2007
- Flesh House - 2008