Cold Granite: The very first book in the gripping No.1 bestselling crime thriller detective series! (Logan McRae, Book 1)

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Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride: Undiscovered Scotland Book Review". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk . Retrieved 9 November 2018. James, Russell (2008). Great British fictional detectives. Barnsley: Pen & Sword. p.135. ISBN 9781844680269.

Detective Sargeant Logan McRae has just returned to work for Aberdeen police, following a year's medical leave after a confrontation with a notorious serial killer. It's not a gentle reintroduction, by any means. A child's decomposing remains are found in a ditch near the River Don and another young boy is reported missing shortly thereafter. It's looking like a vicious serial killer is active in Aberdeen. Meanwhile, the corpse of a gangster from Edinburgh is found floating in the harbour, minus its kneecaps. 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… Yager, Susanna (30 April 2006). "Susannah Yager on new crime fiction". The Sunday Telegraph. ProQuest 309534226.

Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride

Fairbairn, Louise (30 November 2017). "Book review: Now We Are Dead, by Stuart MacBride". www.scotsman.com . Retrieved 6 December 2018. The character development is written well and sets up the series. The story is fairly complex and left me wondering & trying to guess whats happenes next. At times, I guessed correctly but still enjoyed how the author led me there. The character interaction and dialog has a wide range of emotions.

And so to UNIVERSITY, far too young, naive and stupid to be away from the family home, sharing a subterranean flat in one of the seedier bits of Edinburgh with a mad Irishman, and four other bizarre individuals. The highlight of walking to the art school in the mornings (yes: we were students, but we still did mornings) was trying not to tread in the fresh bloodstains outside our front door, and dodging the undercover CID officers trying to buy drugs. Lovely place.This is a gritty and hard hitting novel, involving two different investigations, which somehow merge along the way. The first involves the fact that little boys are being abducted and killed. The second concerns the murder of a gangster, who has ended up in the river minus his kneecaps. Thrown into the deep end, McRae finds himself trying to solve the crimes, stay warm (which doesn't sound easy in the portrait the author paints of a freezing Aberdeen!) and try to discover who is leaking information to the press. More mature when meeting Logan in the novels set in Banff as a foil for Reuben before his attempt to become heir to Wee Hamish's empire and especially his pig farm when Reuben is rescued from hospital at the end of In The Cold Dark Ground Susan [ edit ] Wanner, Len (2012). The crime interviews. Volume two: bestselling authors talk about writing crime fiction. Blasted Heath. ISBN 9781908688217. Bob works in CID alongside McRae and is famed for his telephone manner and breaking wind in the office Wee Hamish Mowat's chief enforcer; he and McRae regularly come to blows, especially in events of In the Cold Dark Ground when Wee Hamish dies and Reuben assumes control of the enterprise forcing McRae to get tough.