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… 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.
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The cover says it all, a child killer is loose in Aberdeen and it is up to DS Logan McRae and Inspector Steele to catch him. It’s not easy being a young Detective Sergeant in the Aberdeen Police department. You’ve got the upper ranks riding you and the lower ranks gunning for your job. But Logan and his constantly disheveled boss lady Steele …
This is the first Stuart MacBride I’ve read and the first book in the Logan McRae series. I’ll be back for more. Couldn’t put it down. McRae is back on the job as a Detective Inspector after being off for a year. The blanks get filled in as the story moves . Suffice to say his first case coming back is the murder of a three year old little boy. …
DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets. 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. And he’s only the first. There’s a serial …
Loved it!
I began reading this series when it first came out. It’s tartan noir as dark as I can take it, anyway, but I’m always drawn back by the extraordinary characters and the dry humour – hilarious even when you’re wincing!
The book keeps you guessing to the last page.
A great police procedural! Characters are memorable, action is tight and fairly constant. Logan McCrae isn’t quite as broken as Rankin’s Rebus, so there’s hope for him yet.
I love this writer and these characters. I read the first one then bought all the rest in the series. These are not just cops one the job, they have lives away from the job with problems and good times and bad times. They seem like real people
Got me hooked on the whole series.
Gritty and gripping police procedural set in the Granite City: thrill ride!
Loved it! The bleak, winter Aberdeen weather provided an appropriately depressing atmosphere for this fast-paced race to stop a serial killer in his gruesome pursuit and dispatch of small boys. With some flirting and intrigue amongst colleagues, a …
I love this series. It was by pure chance I was given this book, and I since then binge-read until I ran out of books. I’ve since then stopped reading them to collect more so that I can binge-read again, because I know for sure that I won’t be able to do anything else. They’re that good.
I’ll definitely be reading more from this author. Page turner psychological thriller and lots of deception. DS Logan McRae investigates a serial child killer. The story takes place in cold, snowy, wet and foggy Aberdeen. Interesting forensic and police procedural. Definitely a brutal story.
My new favourite author of tartan noir! Gripping, edge-of-your-seat, Scottish thrillers.
I have a thing for British police novels, especially those that shine the light on more rural lives. Don’t know what it is—the normality of the people in the force, the absence of American gun violence even though the criminality is much the same (but again with hardly any gun violence). Whatever, I enjoy them immensely. This one may not be the …
Interesting book but set in Scotland Yard style unfamiliar to me.
Great Scottish noir
It’s a “can’t put this down.” I ordered more of his books.
I read this book a while ago but I do remember I liked the book very much
Well written Scottish police story.