Stuart MacBride Profile and Books

Stuart MacBride was born in 1969 in Dumbarton, Scotland but moved to Aberdeen as a young child.

He briefly studied architecture at University but lost interest. He worked on offshore oil rigs, then as a graphic designer, actor, undertaker, studio manager, web designer, programmer, and IT Project Manager. While moving through his various jobs, he wrote his first novel – ‘Cold Granite’ and was eventually able to become a full-time writer.

His hugely successful series featuring police detective Logan McRae is set in and around Aberdeen.

MacBride lives in north-east Scotland with his wife.

Novels

Logan McRae novels

• Cold Granite (#1) (2005)
• Dying Light (#2) (2006)
• Broken Skin/Bloodshot (#3) (2007)
• Flesh House (#4) (2008)
• Blind Eye (#5) (2009)
• Dark Blood (#6) (2010)
• Shatter the Bones (#7) (2011)
• Partners in Crime (short stories) (2012)
• Close to the Bone (#8) (2013)
• The 45% Hangover (short story) (2014)
• 22 Dead Little Bodies (short story) (2015)
• The Missing and the Dead (#9) (2015)
• In the Cold Dark Ground (#10) (2016)
• Now We Are Dead (#11) (2017)
• The Blood Road (#12) (2018)

Ash Henderson novels

• Birthdays for the Dead (#1) (2012)
• A Song for the Dying (#2) (2014)

Other works

• Sawbones (2008)
• Halfhead (2009)
• Twelve Days of Winter (2011)
• A Dark so Deadly (2017)