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 ...

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GENIAL and witty, Stuart MacBride does not initially strike me as the type of man who would make his living writing about grisly murders, the stench of post-mortems, rotting bodies and smoked corpses.

Unlike the 2.5 million people who have bought his 10 previous Logan McCrae novels, I’m not as familiar with Stuart MacBride’s protagonist. After devouring the latest 500-page instalment about the ...

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Stuart MacBride is auctioning off the opportunity to become a character in his next Logan McRae novel, to be published in 2018. In partnership with online auction platform Givergy, MacBride is ...

CRIME writer Stuart MacBride made his name penning gritty murder plots but the thought of a world without kids’ favourite Winnie the Pooh would make his blood run cold. Such is the best-selling ...

BEST-SELLING crime writer Stuart MacBride has revealed the real-life inspiration for his latest hard-hitting novel exposing the mean streets of Aberdeen. His new book, Dark Blood, sees his fictional ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Here’s an author to avoid if you have a problem with scabrous, pungent fare. Cosy crime? Not Stuart MacBride’s ...

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. Once upon a time there was a man called Stuart who wrote crime novels in which awful things happened a lot, often to quite nice people. But Stuart wasn't ...

The recent death of the Godfather of Tartan Noir, William McIlvanney, may have deprived Scottish crime fiction of the man who kick-started the entire subgenre with his novel Laidlaw, but the ranks of ...