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Birthdays for the Dead [Hardcover]

Stuart MacBride
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Book Description

5 Jan 2012

The gritty new standalone crime novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Shatter the Bones and Dark Blood

Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret…

Five years ago his daughter, Rebecca, went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: homemade, with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front – Rebecca, strapped to a chair, gagged and terrified. Every year another card: each one worse than the last.

The tabloids call him The Birthday Boy. He’s been snatching girls for twelve years, always in the run-up to their thirteenth birthday, sending the families his homemade cards showing their daughters being slowly tortured to death.

But Ash hasn’t told anyone about Rebecca’s birthday cards – they all think she’s just run away from home – because if anyone finds out, he’ll be taken off the investigation. And he’s sacrificed too much to give up before his daughter’s killer gets what he deserves…


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  • Hardcover: 496 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins (5 Jan 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0007344171
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007344178
  • Product Dimensions: 16.2 x 24.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (120 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 137,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Praise for Birthdays for the Dead:

‘MacBride is a damned fine writer – no one does dark and gritty like him’ PETER JAMES

Praise for Stuart MacBride:

‘Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order’
Mark Billingham

‘Some of the grittiest crime-writing in the field’
Independent

‘Admirers of tough, modern crime novels will be in seventh heaven – or should that be hell?’
Express

‘Ferocious and funny’
Val McDermid

‘Hard-hitting prose with a bone-dry humour and characters you can genuinely believe in, Stuart MacBride’s novels are a real treat’
Simon Kernick

‘Another brilliant, riveting police procedural. I'm green with envy!’ R D Wingfield

This intelligent, exciting police procedural should make the leading writers of the genre start looking over their shoulders’ Sunday Telegraph

‘An impressive debut … an edge-of-your-seat page-turner’ Publishers Weekly

‘A gritty, roller-coaster, in-your-face thriller’ Aberdeen Press and Journal

‘A cracking new writer on the crime scene who hooks you from the first page and never lets you go. The action is ferocious and the pace unrelenting’ Northern Echo

‘Compelling reading’ Telegraph

‘Gripping’ Daily Mirror

About the Author

Stuart MacBride is the author of several bestselling novels featuring DS Logan McRae, including Shatter the Bones, which reached No. 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller list.

The McRae novels have won him the CWA’s 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.


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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars something missing 20 Mar 2012
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Dark gritty and violent great stuff but i didnt like the way some characters were half introduced like Michelle, jennifer and ex DSI Len Murray,Rhona among others there were too many characters in this book to get to know properly and that was a major pit fall for me. I have read most of stuart Mcbrides books [all except sawbones and halfhead] but this one was different somehow like someone else was interfering with his usual style.
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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars The literary equivalent of Bruce Willis 20 Mar 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
This was a massive letdown. Nasty, brutal, gratuitously violent and totally unbelievable. The "hero" gets hit with so much pain and violence, dosing himself on arthritis pills FFS, and yet bounces back again and again like a Bruce Willis Weeble.

Way way below par. Please don't write another one of these Mr MacBride.
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37 of 41 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Grim, Grim and then Gimmer 2 Mar 2012
Format:Hardcover
I'm a huge fan of the DS Logan series of books that Stuart McBride wrote; they breathed life into this genre even though they books got darker as the series progressed. This book though is a real dissappointment. Gone is the humour, it starts out grim, it gets grimmer, it gets silly and then it dives into a finale of grimness without any redeeming qualities. I just hope this was a cathartic venting of Stuart Mcbride's inner thoughts and he returns to the form of the Logan series. Give this book a miss
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars great book
another great book from stuart MacBride its an excellent book and I have got all his other books to read
Published 11 days ago by diholly
3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad
A good enough read but pretty far fetched. Sometimes I lost track of who was who. All in all not too bad a read
Published 27 days ago by jenwatt
4.0 out of 5 stars Twists and turns all the way
A good read, which kept it's momentum going throughout.

Leaves you saying 'I didn't expect that', although I had to stop and slightly re-trace as I reached the end. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Malcolm Gilbert
1.0 out of 5 stars Thanks for killing me, Mr Macbride
I love both crime and horror, with that said 'Birthday's for the Dead' fell into those genre categories by being criminally and horrifically bad. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Gemma Farrow
4.0 out of 5 stars A gritty violent read
The cover attracted me in the bookshop and then after reading the blurb, it sounded right up my street so I bought it, and I wasn't disappointed. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. R. L. Dove
5.0 out of 5 stars Another's great crime fiction
This is another great crime fiction from Macbride. It's shot full of death, misery, suspense and very dark humour to create yet another thriller that will keep you gripped from... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jeanie
2.0 out of 5 stars Quite grim
I really enjoy Stuart McBride's novels, but have to say I found this one hard work. It doesn't feature his usual characters, and I found some of the imagery quite unpleasant. Read more
Published 1 month ago by C Hall
1.0 out of 5 stars Stuart MacBride is no Peter James!
I am a huge Peter James fan and saw that he had written a review on the back of this book so thought I'd give it a go. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Deborah Neal
5.0 out of 5 stars great
i am a big fan of Macbride so was secptical about a different character, but I shouldnt have been excellent writing as always.
Published 1 month ago by PattieD
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read
I have enjoyed all of this authors work, an excellent adition to m y collection. A must read for lovers of crime fiction
Published 2 months ago by Elspeth McPhail
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