The Missing and the Dead (Logan McRae Series #9)

by Stuart MacBride

Overview

The new Logan McRae novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of CLOSE TO THE BONE and A SONG FOR THE DYING.One mistake can cost you everything…When you catch a twisted killer there should be a reward, right? What Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae gets instead is a ‘development opportunity’ out in the depths of rural Aberdeenshire. Welcome to divisional policing – catching drug dealers, shop lifters, vandals and the odd escaped farm animal.Then a little girl’s body washes up just outside the sleepy town of Banff, kicking off a massive manhunt. The Major Investigation Team is up from Aberdeen, wanting answers, and they don’t care who they trample over to get them.Logan’s got enough on his plate keeping B Division together, but DCI Steel wants him back on her team. As his old colleagues stomp around the countryside, burning bridges, Logan gets dragged deeper and deeper into the investigation.One thing’s clear: there are dangerous predators lurking in the wilds of Aberdeenshire, and not everyone’s going to get out of this alive…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780008135041
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	06/02/2015
Series:	Logan McRae Series , #9
Sold by:	HarperCollins Publishers
Format:	eBook
Pages:	624
Sales rank:	80,606
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Stuart MacBride is the No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series and the Ash Henderson series.

His novels have won him the CWA Dagger in the Library, the Barry Award for Best Debut Novel, and Best Breakthrough Author at the ITV3 Crime Thriller awards. In 2012 Stuart was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Hall of Fame.

Editorial Reviews

04/06/2015
In MacBride’s uncharacteristically plodding ninth novel featuring Det. Sgt. Logan McRae (after 2013’s Close to the Bone), McRae gets reassigned to the tiny town of Banff in northeast Scotland, where most of the crimes involve drunk driving or drug offenses, with the occasional call to clear livestock from the road. When the body of a little girl is found in an outdoor pool, McRae thinks he’s found a case worthy of his talents, until the Aberdeen Major Incident Team—including his former boss, cranky Det. Chief Insp. Roberta Steele—take over. McRae, who has never been good at taking orders, hovers at the periphery of the investigation, which focuses on trying to identify the victim and perhaps tying her to the recent disappearance of a known pedophile in the area. MacBride, who usually excels at weaving together disparate plot threads, can’t seem to pull them all together, and the reader’s mind too often wanders. Agent: Philip Patterson, Marjacq Scripts. (June)

Publishers Weekly

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’ IndependentPraise 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

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