The Missing and the Dead Synopsis
The ninth Logan McRae thriller from the No. 1 bestseller Stuart MacBride.
'Dark and griping. A riveting page-turner' Independent on Sunday
One mistake can cost you everything…
A little girl's body washes up just outside the sleepy coastal town of Macduff, kicking off a major manhunt. Officially, the investigation is out of Sergeant Logan McRae's hands, but DCI Steel's Major Investigation Team, drafted in from Aberdeen, is getting nowhere fast.
Steel is running out of ideas and time. She wants Logan back on her team, and doesn't care how she gets him there.
One thing is clear: there are dangerous predators lurking in the wilds of Aberdeenshire, and not everyone's getting out of this alive…
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Stuart MacBride Press Reviews
Exciting ... a guaranteed bestseller
Literary Review
'New Logan McRae novels are close to the top of my unmissable list, and yet again MacBride delivers. His chaotic cop hero is at his best. Superb storytelling'
Sun
'Another from MacBride's fantastic series of Logan McRae novels. A real page-turner'
Sunday Mirror
'Stuart's meticulous research shows. At times it feels like you are sitting in the back of a police car overhearing conversations between real policemen'
Sunday Sport
'Another riveting page-turner ... emotional and affecting.'
Independent on Sunday
'Skilful storytelling ... strong characterisation ... both intriguing and engrossing'
Laura Wilson, Guardian
'The multiple plots move fast'
Independent Praise for Stuart MacBride:
'MacBride is the natural heir to the late and much lamented Reginald Hill'
Andrew Taylor, Spectator
'MacBride is a damned fine writer - no one does dark and gritty like him'
Peter James
'Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order'
Mark Billingham
'Some of the grittiest crime-writing in the field'
Independent
'Admirers of tough, modern crime novels will be in seventh heaven - or should that be hell?'
Express
'Ferocious and funny'
Val McDermid
'Hard-hitting prose with a bone-dry humour and characters you can genuinely believe in, Stuart MacBride's novels are a real treat'
Simon Kernick
About Stuart MacBride
Stuart MacBride is the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Logan McRae and Ash Henderson novels. He’s also published standalones, novellas and short stories as well as a children’s picture book.
Stuart lives in the northeast of Scotland with his wife Fiona, cats Grendel, Gherkin, Onion, and Beetroot, some hens, horses, and a vast collection of assorted weeds.
Stuart MacBride is the author of several bestselling novels featuring DS Logan McRae, including Shatter the Bones, which reached No. 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller list.
The McRae novels have won him the CWA's Dagger in the Library, the Barry Award for Best Debut Novel, and Best Breakthrough Author at the ITV3 crime thriller awards.
Stuart's other works include Halfhead, a near-future thriller, Sawbones, a novella aimed at adult emergent readers, and several short stories.
Maxim Jakubowski's view on Stuart MacBride...
BLIND EYE is the 5th and latest volume in the increasingly popular series of Aberdeen thrillers with DS Logan McRae at the helm. In turns grim, gritty and gruesome, but also with mordant humour and sparkling dialogue between his warring cops, this is Tartan Noir at its very best, and literally begs for a TV adaptation. Not all Scottish cops are as polished as Ian Rankin’s Rebus, and MacBride’s coppers would jump out of the screen.
Author photo © Paul Levitton
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