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A Dark so Deadly is a 2017 detective fiction novel written by Stuart MacBride. Set in the fictional town of Oldcastle, [ 1 ] it follows the Misfit Mob - a detective unit of Scottish police made up of officers who were sidelined from mainstream cases for various reasons.
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Louise Fairbairn, writing in "The Scotsman", said "After last year’s superlative The Blood Road, I wondered what Stuart MacBride was going to do next. I needn’t have worried – All That’s Dead is a much slower burn, and a very different kind of case for Logan McRae, but it’s a satisfying read, and a hugely thoughtful novel to boot."
Now We Are Dead is a spinoff novel from the bestselling Logan McRae series by Stuart MacBride.The novel features some of the usual characters from the series but McRae's character appears in only two scenes with the story revolving around Roberta Steel.
Stuart MacBride is a Scottish writer, whose crime thrillers are set in the "Granite City" of Aberdeen, with Detective Sergeant Logan McRae as protagonist. Biography [ edit ]
McRae is introduced returning to work, after for a year-long absence recovering from serious stab wounds. He is soon labelled as "Lazarus" by his colleagues as he has risen from the dead [note 1] [1] [2] McRae had been stabbed by the Mastrick Monster (Angus Robertson) [3] who McRae has to interview in "Flesh House" about a suspect Robertson shared a cell with. [4]
Jane Jakeman, writing in The Independent, said "This is a big, fat book, with the story unrolling over nearly 600 pages, but the multiple plots move fast and MacBride convincingly conveys the dilapidated atmosphere of the police station – surely the most realistic in this fictional survey, with its peeling walls and ancient banter."
Cold Granite is the debut novel written by Stuart MacBride. It features Detective Sergeant Logan McRae (who is later nicknamed "Lazarus") as its central character, who works for Grampian Police in Aberdeen, Scotland. Logan McRae went on to feature in a series of books which became a bestseller series for MacBride. [1]