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Cold Granite opens with DS Logan McRae’s first day back on the job after a year off for health reasons. A four‑year‑old boy is discovered strangled and mutilated in a ditch, and the city’s authorities are plunged into a chaotic investigation.
Logan must navigate a hostile new superior, DI Insch, who distrusts everyone, and his former girlfriend, chief pathologist Isobel MacAlister. With the city’s rain‑slick streets slick with snow and criminal gangs vying for control, the cases pile up as more children go missing.
Set against the backdrop of Aberdeen’s oil‑driven economy and year‑long damp weather, the novel explores the grim reality of serial murder and the pressures of a hard‑boiled policing culture.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Stuart MacBride
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