- Mystery, Detective and mystery stories, Police, Serial murders
The debut thriller from a bright new Scottish talent set to rival Ian Rankin.It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse.
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Contemporary, classical in form, relentless and resolved.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Stuart MacBride
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 464
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Brand: HarperCollins, Harpercollins
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Italian, German, English
- ISBN
- 9783442461653
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First sentence
“Dead things had always been special to him.”
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