Dying Light (Logan McRae, Book 2)

Dying Light (Logan McRae, Book 2)

by StuartMacBride (Author)

Synopsis

This is a new Logan McRae thriller from the author of "Cold Granite". It's summertime in the Granite city: the sun is shining, the sky is blue, and people are dying! It starts with a prostitute, stripped naked and beaten to death down by the docks - the heart of Aberdeen's red light district. For DS Logan MacRae, it's a bad start to another bad day. Only a few short months ago, he was the golden boy of Grampian police. But one botched raid later, he's palmed off on a DI everyone knows is a jinx, waiting for the axe to fall with all the other rejects in the 'Screw-up Squad'. Logan's not going to take it lying down. He's determined to escape DI Steel and her unconventional methods, and the best way to do that is to crack the case in double-quick time. But Rosie Williams won't be the only one making an unscheduled trip to the morgue. Across the city, six people are burning to death in a petrol-soaked squat, the doors and windows screwed shut from the outside. And despite Logan's best efforts, it's not long before another prostitute turns up on the slab! Stuart MacBride's characteristic grittiness, gallows humour and lively characerization are to the fore in his unputdownable second novel, confirming his status as the rising star of crime fiction.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 02 May 2006

ISBN 10: 0007217056
ISBN 13: 9780007217052
Prizes: Shortlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2008.

Media Reviews

`DYING LIGHT is a wonderfully gripping and grim second outing for Logan McRae ... Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order' Mark Billingham

Praise for Stuart MacBride:

`Ferocious and funny, this is Tartan Noir at its best' Val McDermid

`MacBride is a damned fine writer - no one does dark and gritty like him' Peter James

`A terrific writer ... Brilliant ... bodies abound, blood flows freely and McRae is a delight' The Times

`Those who like their crime thrillers diamond hard need look no further than Stuart MacBride ... He has few equals in this area' Independent

Author Bio

Stuart MacBride is the No.1 bestselling author of the DS Logan McRae series. His novels have won him the CWA Dagger in the Library, the Barry Award for Best Debut Novel, and Best Breakthrough Author at the ITV3 crime thriller awards. Stuart's other works include Halfhead, a near-future thriller, Sawbones, a novella aimed at adult emergent readers, and several short stories. He lives in the north-east of Scotland with his wife, Fiona, and cat, Grendel.