Stuart MacBride's Number One bestselling crime series opens with this award-winning debut. 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. Three-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...
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(@HarperCollinsUK, 20 April 2017, first published 2005, 373 pages, e-book, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveLibs)
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Stuart MacBride has been on my TBR list for fricking ages. I don't know why I took so long to read one of his books. I have no excuse. The book is a police procedural set in Aberdeen, a city I've never visited for reasons unknown. There's nothing really new here, the police investigate a child killer under the scrutiny of the media while being criticised by a sleazy lawyer who has an uncanny habit of getting bad men off despite overwhelming evidence against them. This stands out due to the characters and quality of writing. I really liked DS Logan and the other police. The characters are well-written and the book is engaging and intense. I really enjoyed this and will definitely read more books by the author.