A short novel featuring Aberdeen’s finest investigative duo, Acting DI Logan McRae and DCI Robert Steel. CID isn’t what it used to be... It’s a been a bad week for acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae. Every time his unit turns up anything interesting, DCI Steel’s Major Investigation Team waltzes in and takes over, leaving CID with all the dull and horrible jobs. Like dealing with Mrs Black — who hates her neighbour, the police, and everyone else. Or identifying the homeless man who drank himself to death behind some bins. Or tracking down the wife and kids of someone who’s just committed suicide. But when the dead bodies start turning up, one thing’s certain — Logan’s week is about to get a whole lot worse

From the No. 1 bestselling author of THE MISSING AND THE DEAD comes the short novel: 22 DEAD LITTLE BODIES, plus two short stories: STRAMASH and DI STEEL’S BAD HEIR DAY, and a novella: THE 45 % HANGOVER, all featuring his most popular characters — DS Logan McRae and DCI Roberta Steel. They say ‘small is beautiful’, but as Stuart MacBride demonstrates in these four tales, it can also be dark, violent, disturbing, and sometimes really quite rude. So pour yourself a wee dram, curl up on the sofa and enjoy DS Logan McRae and his sometime boss, friend, mother substitute, and nemesis, DCI Steel at their best. Here you’ll find Logan’s week from hell; Steel’s own personal nightmare before Christmas; an explosive shootout on a remote Scottish island; and the ultimate test of their relationship

It's the night of the big Referendum, and all Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae has to do is find a missing ‘No’ campaigner. Should be easy enough... But, as usual, DCI Steel has plans of her own. As the votes are counted, there’s trouble brewing in the pubs and on the streets of Aberdeen. Logan’s picked up a promising lead, but all is not quite what it seems, and things are about to go very, very wrong

Welcome to the Misfit Mob... It’s where Police Scotland dumps the officers it can’t get rid of but wants to: the outcasts, the troublemakers, the compromised. Officers like DC Callum MacGregor, lumbered with all the boring go-nowhere cases. So when an ancient mummy turns up at the Oldcastle tip, it’s his job to find out which museum it’s been stolen from. But then Callum uncovers links between his ancient corpse and three missing young men, and life starts to get a lot more interesting. O Division’s Major Investigation Teams already have more cases than they can cope with, so, against everyone’s better judgment, the Misfit Mob are just going to have to manage this one on their own. No one expects them to succeed, but right now they’re the only thing standing between the killer’s victims and a slow, lingering death. The question is, can they prove everyone wrong before he strikes again?

Scream all you want, no one can hear... Inspector Logan McRae is looking forward to a nice simple case — something to ease him back into work after a year off on the sick. But the powers-that-be have other ideas... The high-profile anti-independence campaigner, Professor Wilson, has gone missing, leaving nothing but bloodstains behind. There’s a war brewing between the factions for and against Scottish Nationalism. Infighting in the police ranks. And it’s all playing out in the merciless glare of the media. Logan’s superiors want results, and they want them now. Someone out there is trying to make a point, and they’re making it in blood. If Logan can’t stop them, it won’t just be his career that dies

Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae has been bumped to D.I. Roberta Steel’s ‘Screw-up Squad’ after a raid he led on a warehouse rumored to be full of stolen property ended with no arrests and one officer critically injured. The backstabbing, limelight-stealing, laziest D.I. on Aberdeen’s police force, Steel’s team is made up of the ‘no-hopers,’ the most worthless or inexperienced members of the homicide department, and Logan will do anything to prove he doesn’t belong there. Including working overtime on two baffling cases: the murder by arson of six people, and the beating to death of a prostitute down by the docks, not a high priority compared to the fire. At least not until another prostitute ends up dead. Although both cases seem simple on the surface — turns out the fire’s victims are part of a drug dealer’s inner circle, and what fate is to be expected for working girls in Aberdeen’s red-light district? — in Stuart MacBride’s hands, what’s going on in this rainy Scottish city is bound to be much more complicated than it appears. A detailed authenticity combines with a dark Scottish sense of humor and a lively cast of characters in MacBride’s unputdownable second novel, confirming his status as a rising star of crime fiction

The 4th thriller in the Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. Panic grips The Granite City as DS Logan McRae heads up a manhunt for ‘The Flesher’ — one of the UK’s most notorious serial killers. The case was closed. Until the killer walked free... When an offshore container turns up at Aberdeen Harbour full of human meat, it kicks off the largest manhunt in the Granite City’s history. Twenty years ago ‘The Flesher’ was butchering people all over the UK — turning victims into oven-ready joints — until Grampian’s finest put him away. But eleven years later he was out on appeal. Now he’s missing and people are dying again. When members of the original investigation start to disappear, Detective Sergeant Logan McRae realizes the case might not be as clear cut as everyone thinks... Twenty years of secrets and lies are being dragged into the light. And the only thing that’s certain is Aberdeen will never be the same again

Terrifying serial killer thriller set in the gritty Glasgow of the near future, from the bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. Glasgow, not too far in the future. A new punishment has been devised for the perpetrators of serious crimes – one that not only reduces the prison population but also benefits society at large. The process is known as halfheading: the offender's lower jaw is removed and they are lobotomized. They are then put to work as cleaners in municipal areas like hospitals, where they serve as a warning to all that crime doesn't pay. But for one halfhead, it seems the lobotomy hasn't quite succeeded. Six years after her surgery, Dr Fiona Westfield 'wakes up' surrounded by the butchered remains of a man she has just brutally killed. As her mind slowly begins to return, she sets out on a quest for vengeance. William Hunter, Assistant Section Director of the 'Network' – a military wing of the police – attends the crime scene left behind by the newly awakened halfhead. Sherman House is a run-down concrete housing development full of undesirables and Hunter and his team quickly find themselves in a firefight with the locals. With the help of old comrades and a new friend in the form of prickly but attractive Detective Sergeant Josephine Cameron, Will gets on the trail of the killer. But before long the investigation leads back to a terrible tragedy in his own past, as well as to a terrifying conspiracy to sow violence and misery among Glasgow's most vulnerable citizens

Sergeant Logan McRae is in trouble... His missing-persons investigation has just turned up a body in the woods — naked, hands tied behind its back, and a bin bag duct-taped over its head. The Major Investigation Team charges up from Aberdeen, under the beady eye of Logan’s ex-boss Detective Chief Inspector Steel. And, as usual, she wants him to do her job for her. But it’s not going to be easy: a new Superintendent is on her way up from the Serious Organised Crime Task Force, hell-bent on making Logan’s life miserable; Professional Standards are gunning for Steel; and Wee Hamish Mowat, head of Aberdeen’s criminal underbelly, is dying — leaving rival gangs from all over the UK eying his territory. There’s a war brewing and Logan’s trapped right in the middle, whether he likes it or not

‘We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.’ It’s been seventeen months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no nearer to catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, the top brass are demanding results, but the investigation is sinking fast. Now isn’t the time to get distracted with other cases, but Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh doesn’t have much choice. When Benedict Strachan was just eleven, he hunted down and killed a homeless man. No one’s ever figured out why Benedict did it, but now, after sixteen years, he’s back on the streets again — battered, frightened, convinced a shadowy ‘They’ are out to get him, and begging Lucy for help. It sounds like paranoia, but what if he’s right? What if he really is caught up in something bigger and darker than Lucy’s ever dealt with before? What if the Bloodsmith isn’t the only monster out there? And what’s going to happen when Lucy goes after them?

Detective Chief Inspector Roberta Steel got caught fitting up Jack Wallace — that’s why they demoted her and quashed his sentence. Now he’s back on the streets and women are being attacked again. Wallace has to be responsible, but if Detective Sergeant Steel goes anywhere near him, his lawyers will get her thrown off the force for good. The Powers That Be won’t listen to her, not after what happened last time. According to them, she’s got more than enough ongoing cases to keep her busy. Perhaps she could try solving a few instead of harassing an innocent man? Steel knows Wallace is guilty. And the longer he gets away with it, the more women will suffer. The question is: how much is she willing to sacrifice to stop him?

Logan McRae’s personal history is hardly squeaky clean, but now that he works for Professional Standards he’s policing his fellow officers. When Detective Inspector Bell turns up dead in the driver’s seat of a crashed car it’s a shock to everyone. Because Bell died two years ago, they buried him. Or they thought they did. As an investigation is launched into Bell’s stabbing, Logan digs into his past. Where has he been all this time? Why did he disappear? And what’s so important that he felt the need to come back from the dead? But the deeper Logan digs, the more bones he uncovers — and there are people out there who’ll kill to keep those skeletons buried. If Logan can’t stop them, DI Bell won’t be the only one to die

A house of secrets... As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith’s home is falling into the sea. The trouble is: that’s where he’s been hiding the bodies. A killer on the run... It’s too dangerous to go near the place, so there’s no way of knowing how many people he’s murdered. Or how many more he’ll kill before he’s caught. An investigator with nothing to lose... As more horrors are discovered, ex-detective Ash Henderson is done playing nice. He’s got a killer to catch, and God help anyone who gets in his way

OVER 40 NEW STORIES FROM BRITAIN’S LEADING CRIME WRITERS Leading editor and reviewer Maxim Jakubowski has compiled another beguiling collection of the year’s best new short crime fiction from the UK. Ian Rankin’s perennially popular Edinburgh cop, Inspector Rebus, makes an unexpected comeback in a short, but intriguing story, ‘The Very Last Drop’, and the collection closes with another Rankin story, ‘Driven’. Making their first appearance in the series are many luminaries such as Kate Atkinson, Louise Welsh, Stephen Booth, Christopher Brookmyre, Colin Bateman, A. L. Kennedy, Sheila Quigley, Lin Anderson, Simon Kernick and David Hewson. Also represented are exciting up-and-coming talents such as Nick Quantrill, Jay Stringer, Paul D. Brazill and Nigel Bird

Three friends go on a foodie road trip to the Scottish Highlands and Islands to celebrate their pending retirement, expecting stunning scenery, great food, fine wines, and a chance to reminisce about the good old days. When they somehow secure a reservation at a remote and extremely exclusive restaurant set on a private island in Loch Broom, they know they’re in for a once-in-a-lifetime dining experience. The question is: what is on the menu? Because all is not as it seems. One of the three friends is a killer, one is a liar, and one will do whatever it takes to survive

The Granite City is ready to burn, and all it takes is a single spark... In the heat of a blistering summer, Aberdeen’s police are struggling: half the force is off sick, leave has been cancelled, someone’s firebombed a hotel full of migrants, and there’s a massive protest march happening this Saturday. With officers dropping like flies, Detective Inspector Logan McRae is forced to juggle cases and run a major murder investigation with a skeleton staff of misfits, idiots and malingerers until the top brass can arrange backup from other divisions. It doesn’t help that the Aberdeen Examiner has just been bought by Natasha Agapova, a tabloid media tycoon hell-bent on blaming local police for everything. And she’s more than happy to fan the flames. But, as bad as everything seems, it’s all about to get much, much worse

Потрясающий, динамичный роман с увлекательным и цельным сюжетом, который лишь подтверждает, что Стюарт Макбрайд — один из лучших авторов в жанре детективного триллера. Двенадцать лет назад в Олдкасле накануне своего тринадцатилетия пропала девочка. Через год, в день рождения дочери, родители получили «открытку»: неизвестный сфотографировал их дочь в темном подвале. Девочку привязали к стулу, ее рот залеплен скотчем, а в глазах — смертельный ужас. Ровно год спустя — еще один снимок, где на теле жертвы уже видны ожоги и порезы. И так — каждый год, пока родители не понимают, что девочка давно мертва. А неуловимый маньяк, которого в полиции прозвали «мальчик-день-рождения», наверняка уже нашел несколько новых жертв

Когда в контейнере, готовящемся к отправке в море, были обнаружены куски человечины, началась самая масштабная в истории Гранитного города погоня за преступником. В конце восьмидесятых годов прошлого века Мясник убивал людей по всей Великобритании. Жертвы он превращал в куски мяса, поступавшие в магазины. Все это продолжалось до тех пор, пока полиция Грампиана не отправила его за решетку. Но… прошло несколько лет, и убийцу выпустили по апелляции. Люди начали умирать снова. После трагической гибели детектива Брукса, занимавшегося делом Мясника, сержант Логан Макрай начинает понимать, что копать следует в другом месте…

Несколько лет назад маньяк по прозвищу Потрошитель убил четырех женщин и еще трех жестоко изуродовал. Жертвам он распарывал живот и помещал в него пластмассовую куклу. А потом убийца просто исчез. Прошло восемь лет, и он вернулся. Найдено тело медсестры. Ее живот был заштопан, а внутри находилась кукла. Бывший детектив Эш Хендерсон, занимавшийся делом Потрошителя, находится на лечении в психиатрической больнице. Восемь лет назад он стал жертвой мести преступника и лишился всего: семьи, дома, любимой работы. Узнав о возвращении убийцы, Эш понимает, что новых жертв не избежать, и приступает к расследованию

На дне канавы найден обезображенный труп. Им оказался пропавший несколько месяцев назад трехлетний Дэвид Рид. Сержант Логан Макрэй начинает расследование. Маньяк бесчинствует: исчезают дети, трупы множатся. Местные СМИ подняли вой и жаждут крови. Сержант понимает, что если он не предпримет решительных шагов, то окажется следующим в списке жертв безжалостного убийцы

Утро начинается с тела проститутки, раздетой догола и забитой до смерти прямо в центре квартала красных фонарей шотландского Абердина. Еще одно плохое начало плохого дня детектива-сержанта Логана Макрея, тем более что и без того хватает добра на его голову: расчлененный труп собаки-лабрадора в чемодане, групповой секс членов городского совета с несовершеннолетней, пропавший без вести неверный муж. Повседневные проблемы обыкновенного полицейского из обыкновенного шотландского города начала XXI века. Ах да! Не забыть о маньяке, который наглухо закрывает двери домов и сжигает их вместе с обитателями — раз, другой, третий. К тому же над Макреем висит внутреннее расследование, а начальница изо всех сил испытывает его нервы на прочность… Роман Стюарта Макбрайда — отменный городской детектив, изрядно сдобренный черным шотландским юмором

У сержанта Логана Макрэя дел невпроворот. В ходе расследования в лесу найдено тело. Следственная группа направляется на место преступления под контролем бывшего босса Логана, детектива Стил. И, как обычно, она хочет, чтобы всю пыльную работу сделали за нее, но это будет нелегко. Интриги в полиции и передел сфер влияния в криминальном мире – это настоящая война. Логан попал в самый эпицентр этой войны за темную землю, нравится ему это или нет

Это был его первый рабочий день. Позади — целый год на больничной койке после тяжелого ранения. И этот день оказался настоящим кошмаром… Найден труп четырехлетнего Дэвида Рида. Безжалостный убийца задушил ребенка и спрятал тело в дренажной канаве. Как оказалось, это было только начало. Исчезают дети. Трупы множатся. Убийца бесчинствует. Средства массовой информации подняли вой и жаждут крови… На счету каждая минута. Сержант Логан Макрай должен найти маньяка как можно быстрее. Он понимает, что в скором времени может оказаться следующим в списке жертв