Stuart MacBride is a Scottish

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, most famous for his

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s set in the "Granite City" of

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and featuring Detective Sergeant Logan McRae.

Biography

Stuart MacBride was born 27 February 1969 in

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, Scotland and raised in Aberdeen. His careers include scrubbing toilets offshore, graphic design, web design and IT/computer programming. He studied architecture at

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. MacBride's publishing deal was secured with the writing of ''Halfhead''; however, the publishers were more interested in ''Cold Granite'', concerning DS Logan McRae. He was signed on a three-book Logan deal, which was further extended to six books. In 2009 he signed another deal, allowing him to write two more Logan books, and two standalone novels, the first of which is due after the sixth instalment of the Logan McRae series. In an interview for the

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television channel, MacBride indicated he considered

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a "literary inspiration". MacBride's novels, particularly those featuring Logan McRae, have been described as Tartan Noir, which has placed him alongside

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and

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as authors who have also been described as luminaries of the genre. He now lives in north-east Scotland with his wife, Fiona and their cat Grendel. Outside of his writing, Macbride is noted for being one of the initial ten batch of people in the Aberdeen Hall of Heroes and being crowned World

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Champion in 2014. He also won Celebrity Mastermind in 2017 with a specialist subject on the life and works of

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Bibliography

Logan McRae novels

* 2005 - ''

Cold Granite Cold Granite is the debut novel written by Stuart MacBride. It features Detective Sergeant Logan McRae (who is later nicknamed "Lazarus") as its central character, who works for Grampian Police Grampian Police was, between 1975 and 2013 (re ...

'' * 2006 - ''Dying Light'' * 2007 - ''Broken Skin'' (published in America as ''Bloodshot'') * 2008 - ''Flesh House'' * 2009 - ''Blind Eye'' * 2010 - ''Dark Blood'' * 2011 - ''

Shatter the Bones Shatter the Bones is the seventh book in the bestselling Logan McRae detective series set in Aberdeenshire by Stuart MacBride. Plot Alison and Jenny McGregor have been kidnapped and are being ransomed for a very large sum of money. Because the ...

'' * 2012 - ''Partners in Crime'' (Two Logan and Steel short stories: ''Bad Heir Day'' and ''Stramash'') (

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) * 2013 - '' Close to the Bone'' * 2014 - ''The 45% Hangover'' (A Logan and Steel novella) * 2015 - ''22 Dead Little Bodies'' (A Logan and Steel short novel) * 2015 - '' The Missing and the Dead'' * 2016 - ''

In the Cold Dark Ground ''In the Cold Dark Ground'' is the tenth instalment in the bestselling Detective Sergeant McRae series of crime novels set in Aberdeenshire from Stuart MacBride. Plot Sergeant Logan McRae is still overseeing a patch of north east Aberdeenshire ...

'' * 2017 - ''

Now We Are Dead Now We Are Dead is a spinoff novel from the bestselling Logan McRae series by Stuart MacBride. The novel features some of the usual characters from the series but McRae's character appears in only two scenes with the story revolving around Robe ...

'' * 2018 - ''

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'' * 2019 - '' All That's Dead''

Oldcastle novels

* 2012 - ''Birthdays for the Dead'' * 2014 - ''A Song for the Dying'' * 2017 - '' A Dark so Deadly'' * 2021 - ''The Coffinmaker’s Garden'' * 2022 - ''No Less the Devil''

Other works

* 2008 - ''Sawbones'' * 2009 - ''Halfhead'' * 2011 - ''Twelve Days of Winter'' (

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; released in print in 2012)

Awards

*Won, Barry Award for Best First Novel, 2006 (for ''Cold Granite'') *Won, CWA

Dagger in the Library The Dagger in the Library (Golden Handcuffs in 1992–1994) is an annual award given by the British Crime Writers' Association to a particular "living author who has given the most pleasure to readers". Yearly shortlists are drawn up of the ten auth ...

Award, 2007 *Won, ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Breakthrough Author of the Year, 2008 (for ''Broken Skin'') *Nominated,

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, Best Debut Novel, 2006 (for ''Cold Granite'') *Nominated,

Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award The Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award is one of the UK's top crime-fiction awards, sponsored by Theakston's Old Peculier. It is awarded annually at Harrogate Crime Writing Festival in the UK, held every July, as part of the ...

, 2006 (for ''Cold Granite'') *Nominated, Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2007 (for ''Dying Light'') *Nominated, Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel, 2007 (for ''Dying Light'') *Nominated, Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2009 (for ''Broken Skin'')

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Macbride, Stuart Living people Scottish novelists Scottish crime fiction writers Scottish science fiction writers People associated with Aberdeen People from Aberdeen People from Dumbarton Barry Award winners 1969 births Tartan Noir writers