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. In "Shatter the Bones" Steel lifts her daughter from her "Baby Barlinnie" where Macbride gives the child her full name of Jasmine Catherine Cassandra Steel-Wallace. Joint surname implied [inferred?]? My reaction to Cold Granite is ambivalent. Although I read the book with enthusiasm, I found it frustrated me in certain aspects, thus lowering my overall rating of it.

McRae donates sperm to his boss' wife (Susan) so that she can have a child. [10] He ends up being 'father' to their two girls, Naomi and Jasmine.Insch appears in " Close to the Bone" when he is working as a production assistant at a media company. He is still working for Zander but only mentioned in "All Thats Dead". Meanwhile, the local council worker who removes all the dead animals from the roads (affectionately called "Roadkill") is found to have a dead girl in his tip and another dead girl is discovered on the local rubbish dump. [2] [3] [4] Reception [ edit ] He makes an appearance in "All That's Dead" where he supplies computer time for Logan which in turn gives Tufty his big break in show business (maybe not).

Baby sitter twice. Once with a real child and the other intended as a minder keeping Superintendent Green away from fouling up in Shatter the Bones.Except that he appears to have achieved that at Sergeant level but still gets higher rank ahead of McRae. Hot Dog! I have myself another fabulous series to dig into. I love discovering these older series as there will be books waiting for me whenever I get the urge to revisit the characters. In addition, there is something about some of these more “vintage” novels that you do not see in books published today. Some sort of “IT” factor that is difficult to explain. 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".

Forshaw, Barry (30 December 2015). "A drop of the hard stuff from a tartan noir heavyweight". The Independent. ProQuest 1752255461. a b c d Fairbairn, Louise (21 June 2018). "Book review: The Blood Road, by Stuart MacBride". The Scotsman . Retrieved 9 November 2018. Brought in initially to profile a killer but becomes interested in McRae's state of mind after his several difficulties simply trying to stay alive. Many conversations are a combination of Logan trying to get a profile written while Goulding attempts to arrange appointments so he can examine McRae.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. Appears in the first of the uniformed Logan McRae novels " The Missing and the Dead" as dogsbody for Steel in place of the usual whipping boys McRae and Rennie. This is a gritty and hard hitting novel, involving two different investigations, which somehow merge along the way. The first involves the fact that little boys are being abducted and killed. The second concerns the murder of a gangster, who has ended up in the river minus his kneecaps. Thrown into the deep end, McRae finds himself trying to solve the crimes, stay warm (which doesn't sound easy in the portrait the author paints of a freezing Aberdeen!) and try to discover who is leaking information to the press. Now We Are Dead by Stuart MacBride: Undiscovered Scotland Book Review". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk . Retrieved 14 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.