Books by Stuart MacBride and Complete Book Reviews
Stuart MacBride, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (458p) ISBN 978-0-312-33995-1
Relentless rain reflects the tormented mood that permeates MacBride's impressive debut set in Aberdeen, Scotland. Det. Sgt. Logan MacRae, back from a lengthy convalescence caused by a crazed suspect's knife attack, is plunged straightaway...
READ FULL REVIEW
Stuart MacBride, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (424p) ISBN 978-0-312-33997-5
In this savage, darkly comic second American outing for the newest member of the "Scottish noir" school, the action begins with a particularly gruesome crime: a madman has sealed up a squatter's apartment and set it—and the six...
READ FULL REVIEW
Stuart MacBride, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (439p) ISBN 978-0-312-33999-9
at the start of McBride's vivid third Det. Sgt. Logan MacRae police procedural (after 2006's Dying Light
), the Aberdeen police, on the trail of a serial rapist, catch Scottish sports hero Rob Macintyre stalking tarted-up Woman Police...
READ FULL REVIEW
Stuart MacBride, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $24.95 (467p) ISBN 978-0-312-38263-6
Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, MacBride’s superbly unsettling fourth novel (after Bloodshot
) sets Det. Sgt. Logan McRae on the trail of a serial killer in Aberdeen, Scotland. When human remains are discovered first in a...
READ FULL REVIEW
Stuart MacBride, Author . Minotaur $26.99 (517p) ISBN 978-0-312-38264-3
Det. Sgt. Logan McRae, who's still recovering from the bloody events of 2008's Flesh
, investigates a series of brutal attacks on Polish immigrants in MacBride's excellent fifth novel to feature the Aberdeen, Scotland, cop. A local...
READ FULL REVIEW
Stuart B. MacBride. Harper Voyager (IPG, dist.), $12.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-00-734926-5
Surgery aimed at rendering the offender harmless has replaced capital punishment in MacBride's effective if gory futuristic crime thriller set in Scotland. The procedure, which removes half the subject's head, leaves the criminal docile and capable...
READ FULL REVIEW
Stuart MacBride. Harper U.K. (IPG, dist.), $12.95 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-0-00-736254-7
A marvelously imperfect lead drives MacBride's intricate sixth crime novel featuring Aberdeen Det. Sgt. Logan McRae (after Blind Eye). McRae, once his department's "golden boy," has fallen from grace over the preceding year-and-a-half and is now a...
READ FULL REVIEW
Stuart MacBride. Harper, $14.99 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-0-00-734420-8
A cop’s horrifying personal connection with a serial killer puts a chilling spin on MacBride’s solid stand-alone. Det. Constable Ash Henderson, of Oldcastle, Scotland, is on the police team investigating “the Birthday Boy,” who for the last 12 years
READ FULL REVIEW
Stuart MacBride. Harper, $24.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-00-734426-0
In Scottish author MacBride’s predictably grisly but cleverly twisted eighth thriller featuring Det. Insp. Logan McRae (after 2011’s Shatter the Bones), the Aberdeen cop looks into the case of a man found strangled and stabbed with a burning tire...
READ FULL REVIEW
Stuart MacBride. HarperCollins, $25.99 (592p) ISBN 978-0-00-749460-6
In MacBride’s uncharacteristically plodding ninth novel featuring Det. Sgt. Logan McRae (after 2013’s Close to the Bone), McRae gets reassigned to the tiny town of Banff in northeast Scotland, where most of the crimes involve drunk driving or drug...
READ FULL REVIEW
ARTICLES