Untitled Stuart MacBride 2025

<p><b><i>The Granite City is ready to burn, and all it takes is a single spark . . .</i></b><br><br>In the heat of a blistering summer, Aberdeen’s police are strugglin half the force is off sick, leave has been cancelled, someone’s firebombed a hotel full of migrants, and there’s a massive protest march happening this Saturday.<br><br>With officers dropping like flies, Detective Inspector Logan McRae is forced to juggle cases and run a major murder investigation with a skeleton staff of misfits, idiots and malingerers until the top brass can arrange back-up from other divisions.<br><br>It doesn’t help that the <i>Aberdeen Examiner</i> has just been bought by Natasha Agapova, a tabloid media tycoon hell-bent on blaming local police for everything. And she’s <i>more</i> than happy to fan the flames.<br><br>But, as bad as everything seems, it’s all about to get much, <i>much</i> worse . . .<br><br><b>* * *</b><br><br><b>Praise for Stuart MacBride:</b><br><br>''Dark and brilliantly written'' <b>Linwood Barclay, </b>author of <i>I Will Ruin You</i><br><br>''MacBride is a damned fine writer'' <b>Peter James, </b>author of <i>Picture You Dead</i><br><br>''Crime fiction of the highest order''<b> Mark Billingham, </b>author of <i>The Last Dance</i></p>