Cold Granite: The very first book in the gripping No.1 bestselling crime thriller detective series! (Logan McRae, Book 1)

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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.

Largely unseen but frequently mentioned when matters begin to unwind and usually due to some accident or blunder brought about by him resulting in injury to himself with the need to re-plan in his absence. Still around in Blood Road having undermined a briefing by breaking the projector. Yager, Susanna (30 April 2006). "Susannah Yager on new crime fiction". The Sunday Telegraph. ProQuest 309534226. Except that he appears to have achieved that at Sergeant level but still gets higher rank ahead of McRae. DS Logan McRae is an appealing mix of experience and naiveté. While he is a skilled investigator with excellent instincts, he is almost childlike when it comes to personal and professional relationships.The character development is written well and sets up the series. The story is fairly complex and left me wondering & trying to guess whats happenes next. At times, I guessed correctly but still enjoyed how the author led me there. The character interaction and dialog has a wide range of emotions.

Having read and enjoyed three novels and one short story from Stuart MacBride's Logan McRae series over the past few months, I decided it was time I got my act together and read the first book in the series, Cold Granite. 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 ]Arnold, Sue (10 July 2009). "Review: Review: Blind, written and read by Stuart MacBride". The Guardian . Retrieved 10 November 2018. Stenhouse, David (2 May 2008). "One man's meat - Stuart MacBride interview". The Scotsman . Retrieved 9 November 2018. But university and I did not see eye to eye, so off I went to work offshore. Like many all-male environments, working offshore was the intellectual equivalent of Animal House, only without the clever bits. Swearing, smoking, eating, more swearing, pornography, swearing, drinking endless plastic cups of tea... and did I mention the swearing? But it was more money than I'd seen in my life! There's something about being handed a wadge of cash as you clamber off the minibus from the heliport, having spent the last two weeks offshore and the last two hours in an orange, rubber romper suit / body bag, then blowing most of it in the pubs and clubs of Aberdeen. And being young enough to get away without a hangover. Stuart MacBride’s stunning debut novel Cold Granite propels DS Logan McRae into the detective hall of fame in no time at all.

Napier (also known as the "Ginger Ninja") works as the boss of professional standards and is always investigating McRae. It comes as a major surprise to McRae that Napier wishes him to transfer to professional standards as a DI during the events of " In the Cold Dark Ground". I am of mixed minds about this book. On the one hand, the prose is good, and I liked getting to know Logan McRae. He is a good detective who places the welfare of the community above his own. He doesn't care for the politics of the police hierarchy, who find reasons to come down on him. The mystery is acceptably treated as a suspenseful police procedural. Although I have patience with this genre, the book dragged along with silly, rather childish romantic asides. Nor do I have to know what each meal consisted of. It could easily have been 25% shorter without loss. Steve Worsley reads the book well and give different voices to the characters. He even manages female voices pretty well.After the events of "Flesh House" (which while searching for a cannibal, led to McRae eating cooked human flesh), he became a vegetarian in "Blind Eye" the follow-up novel. [7] [8] [9]

However, the main reason I have mixed feelings is that it describes the killing of children in gory detail. The author does not have to convince me that a killer of 3- and 4-year old children is mentally ill, and, while he may want me to know the extent of the mutilation, he need not have characters dwell on it. 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. Now We Are Dead by Stuart MacBride: Undiscovered Scotland Book Review". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk . Retrieved 14 November 2018.Goodreads και σε άλλες βιβλιοφιλικές ιστοσελίδες, όταν έψαχνα λίστες με τα καλύτερα και πιο δυνατά αστυνομικά/ψυχολογικά θρίλερ. Και όποτε το έβλεπα, πραγματικά αναρωτιόμουν πότε θα μεταφραζόταν επιτέλους και στα ελληνικά. Τόσα θρίλερ μας έχουν κατακλύσει τα τελευταία χρόνια, αυτό σε πηγάδι κατούρησε; Να, όμως, που οι εκδόσεις Ελληνικά Γράμματα μας έκαναν τη χάρη, έστω και τόσα χρόνια μετά την πρώτη κυκλοφορία του (η σειρά στην οποία ανήκει έχει φτάσει αισίως στα έντεκα βιβλία και συνεχίζει!). Wanner, Len (2012). The crime interviews. Volume two: bestselling authors talk about writing crime fiction. Blasted Heath. ISBN 9781908688217. Arnold, Sue (12 March 2011). "Shatter the Bones, by Stuart MacBride, read by Steve Worsley". The Guardian. ProQuest 856652992.