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Absolute proof of the truth of the Peter Principle that organizations manage careers so that everyone "rises to the level of their incompetence." Gritty Scottish police procedural set in the granite city (Aberdeen). My heart sank when I read the opening of this book and realised it was dealing with the distasteful topic of the death and mutilation of very young children. However, after the prologue there was no further description of the actual killing or mutilation of children and the body count wasn't too high.
The courier used by Wee Hamish Mowat to deliver "evidence" for Finnie and later McRae to undermine competing businesses but also able to turn his hand to casual brutality and murder. Opening: Dead things had always been special to him. Their delicate coldness. The feel of the skin. The ripe, sweet smell as they decayed. As they returned to God.With more red herrings than you can shake a fishing rod at, Scottish author Stuart MacBride has kept me guessing pretty much the whole way through Cold Granite. Bob works in CID alongside McRae and is famed for his telephone manner and breaking wind in the office Whiteside, Shirley (11 January 2015). "Banished, but not for long". The Independent. ProQuest 1644308181. Onto the case, and the chilling, sometimes gruesome, abductions and mutilations of children are investigated by Aberdeen’s police force. A secondary investigation involves the knee-capping and dumping of an Edinburgh chancer. It’s incredibly well-plotted, with red herrings and misdirection all along the way. Instead of your run-of-the-mill “someone’s a serial killer” thread, there are genuine suspects who are counted in and counted out like some sort of judicial hokey-kokey which makes a genuinely interesting and often surprising read.
It’s been a hot, humid August in Minnesota, and there’s nothing like a cold, wet thriller to chill me to the bone. Cold Granite certainly fits the bill! Aberdeen, the third-largest city in Scotland, is known as “the Granite City,” and statistically is the coldest city in the UK. I love a thriller where the weather almost becomes another character, and Mr. McBride certainly manages to make Mother Nature a key figure. If it’s not raining, it’s miserably damp and misty. If it’s not doing either of those, it’s snowing. A forensic technician who works for Grampian Police who is first introduced in " Flesh House" and who later becomes McRae's girlfriend. She is paralysed and left in a coma after a fire and during the events in " Shatter the Bones", and whilst she is comatose in hospital, McRae imagines having conversations with her. [29] During his time in Banffshire, McRae is living in the police house and eating tinned soup so that he can afford to pay for her 24-hour care. At the end of " The Missing and the Dead" Samantha is kidnapped and half-drowned, which makes her seriously ill. She dies after McRae switches off her life support in the novel " In the Cold Dark Ground".An ever present in the Aberdeen based novels as Desk Sergeant and Fed Rep as well as unwilling message taker for McRae. And so to UNIVERSITY, far too young, naive and stupid to be away from the family home, sharing a subterranean flat in one of the seedier bits of Edinburgh with a mad Irishman, and four other bizarre individuals. The highlight of walking to the art school in the mornings (yes: we were students, but we still did mornings) was trying not to tread in the fresh bloodstains outside our front door, and dodging the undercover CID officers trying to buy drugs. Lovely place. Ding-Dong has some minor roles in the later books (with a more prominent role in " Now We Are Dead"), but in " The Blood Road", he is found dead in a car crash when he supposedly had already died two years earlier. [12] Detective Inspector Beattie [ edit ] Cold Granite (Logan McRae, book 1) by Stuart MacBride". www.fantasticfiction.com . Retrieved 12 November 2018.
Description: 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. Detective Sargeant Logan McRae has just returned to work for Aberdeen police, following a year's medical leave after a confrontation with a notorious serial killer. It's not a gentle reintroduction, by any means. A child's decomposing remains are found in a ditch near the River Don and another young boy is reported missing shortly thereafter. It's looking like a vicious serial killer is active in Aberdeen. Meanwhile, the corpse of a gangster from Edinburgh is found floating in the harbour, minus its kneecaps. This is a list of characters from the Logan McRae series of detective novels by the Scottish writer Stuart MacBride. They are all fictional characters that have appeared in more than one novel in the series. the stories move through real time and as such, some of the earlier novels are set in the Grampian Police area of responsibility, which later becomes Police Scotland. Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride: Undiscovered Scotland Book Review". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk . Retrieved 9 November 2018.In early stories always seen with green hair although in "Shatter the Bones" in a lime shade until the short story 22 Dead Little Bodies when he is suited and overpays when buying McRae's flat. 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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