Stuart MacBride

Il primo corpo è incatenato a un palo: strangolato e pugnalato, con uno pneumatico che ancora brucia intorno a quel che resta del collo. Si tratta di un’esecuzione della malavita o di qualcosa di molto più complesso? Qualcuno sta lasciando piccoli frammenti di ossa fuori della roulotte dell’ispettore Logan McRae, ma lui pensa di avere cose più urgenti cui pensare. Bande di narcotrafficanti rivali sono in lotta per il controllo del territorio, una coppia di adolescenti è scomparsa, qualcuno sta mutilando immigrati asiatici con strani, orripilanti rituali stregoneschi e Logan deve pure fare i conti con una nuova e ambiziosa detective, con una montagna di scartoffie, e con la sgradita attenzione sia da parte dei superiori che dei boss della criminalità locale. Per non parlare del suo capo diretto, la sguaiata, offensiva, perennemente urlante, irresistibile commissario capo Steel. Quando un altro corpo viene ritrovato, le somiglianze tra i vari omicidi non possono più essere ignorate. E forse quei frammenti di ossa legati con un grazioso nastrino sono più importanti di quanto sembrino…

A bestseller from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. The seventh DS Logan McRae thriller is a gripping page-turner in which fame and fortune crash head-on with crime and punishment. No suspects. No clues. No rest for the wicked. 'You will raise money for the safe return of Alison and Jenny McGregor. If you raise enough money within fourteen days they will be released. If not, Jenny will be killed.' Aberdeen's own mother-daughter singing sensation are through to the semi-finals of TV smash-hit Britain's Next Big Star. But their reality-TV dream has turned into a real-life nightmare. The ransom demand appears in all the papers, on the TV, and the internet, telling the nation to dig deep if they want to keep Alison and Jenny alive. Time is running out, but DS Logan McRae and his colleagues have nothing to go on: the kidnappers haven't left a single piece of forensic evidence and there are no witnesses. It looks as if the price of fame just got a lot higher…

Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn't happy to be part of the team helping convicted rapist Richard Knox settle into his new home. He's even less thrilled to be stuck with DSI Danby from Northumbria Police - the man who put Knox behind bars - who is here to 'keep an eye on things'. Only things are about to go very, very wrong.

The new Logan McRae thriller set in gritty Aberdeen, from the bestselling author of Cold Granite and Flesh House. It's summer in the Granite City, but even the sunshine can't improve the mood at Grampian Police Headquarters. Aberdeen's growing Polish community is under attack from a serial offender who leaves mutilated victims to be discovered on building sites -- eyes gouged out and the sockets burned. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is assigned to the investigation, codenamed Operation Oedipus, but with the victims too scared to talk, it's going nowhere fast. When the next victim turns out to be not a newly arrived eastern european, but Simon McLeod, owner of the Turf n' Track bookies, Logan suddenly finds himself caught up in a world of drug wars, prostitution rings and gun-running courtesy of Aberdeen's oldest and most vicious crime lord.

Als in einem Container im Hafen von Aberdeen menschliche Leichenteile in den Fleischvorräten für eine Bohrinsel gefunden werden, beginnt ein wahrer Alptraum. Offenbar ist der „Fleischer“ zurück, ein Killer, der vor vielen Jahren seine Opfer im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes abgeschlachtet hatte. Ken Wiseman war damals zwar gefasst und verurteilt worden, ist seit einiger Zeit aber wieder in Freiheit. Bald werden weitere Leichenteile gefunden, und von einigen offenbar verschleppten Opfern fehlt jede Spur. Nur Unmengen von Blut zeugen von den unvorstellbaren Gräueln, die sich in ihrem Haus zugetragen haben müssen. Fieberhaft suchen Detective Logan McRae und seine Kollegen nach dem „Fleischer“ – doch der ist ihnen stets einen Schritt voraus ...

Nearly bouncing back from a transfer, Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is still looking at nothing but dead ends. His only chance of escaping his current post is to get noticed. Not that any of the cases he’s working on are the type that you want to get noticed for.   For starters, someone dumped a dying man outside the hospital. McRae’s boss D.I. Roberta Steel and her team can’t get an ID on the man, the person who dropped him off, or the car. McRae's second case is hardly any better. It involves a knife-wielding eight-year-old who is not only still at large but getting all kinds of sympathy in the newspapers. That kind of press does little for the department’s accusations against Robert Macintyre, Aberdeen’s star soccer player and another media darling. WPC Jackie Watson, McRae’s girlfriend, is convinced Robert is a serial rapist, but they can’t even hold him let alone charge him when the whole city thinks he’s being framed. Catching these perps is thankless work, and even if he does, it seems like McRae’s chances of getting off Steel’s team are as bad as Aberdeen’s without their leading goal scorer.   With his third masterful installment in a series that combines fast-paced suspense with a dark, distinctly Scottish sense of humor, Stuart MacBride has firmly established himself as a major crime-writing talent.

It's summertime in the Granite city: the sun is shining, the sky is blue, & people are dying. It starts with a prostitute, stripped naked & beaten to death down by the docks. Despite DS Logan MacRae's best efforts, it's not long before another body turns up on the slab.

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! 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 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!