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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
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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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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A modern, dark and brutal police thriller-highly believable,
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Dark, brooding, macabre and packed full of twists and turns Birthdays for the Dead is not for the squeamish. A tale of deception, disappearance and brutality featuring a father seeking the ultimate revenge against one of the creepiest murderers in recent fiction. Reads well and is short and choppy which helps to move the action along. Took no more than a few days to finish which is perfect for a crime thriller because they need to be page turners to deliver the right amount of action and thrills to keep you interested. Have to say that the book contains a lot of police procedure but it's well written and the main anti-hero DC Constable Ash Henderson is a highly believable copper. Sarcastic, black humour throughout, this is a hard-hitting novel which scores 10 out of 10 for it's ability to scare but it can also make for uncomfortable reading because it doesn't pull any punches around issues which are highly sensitive in todays climate.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Implausible but gripping,
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This review is from: Birthdays for the Dead (Kindle Edition)
The plot is almost comically implausible in parts, but just try putting this book down. The blackness and violence are addictive, albeit not to be taken too seriously. The hero's relationship with the psychologist cries out for a follow-up, which I hope will not be too long coming.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another Macbride Thriller of a Thriller,
By Uncle Sandy (Aberdeen Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Birthdays for the Dead (Hardcover)
This latest volume by Stuart Macbride, has it all. Gritty realism, pathos, comedy, a hint of romance, twisting plots, great story line and the finality of an ending that can be readily re-opened in a new book. If there is one criticism, and there is one, the story features completely new characters and locations and does not involve DS Logan McRae. This was my one disapointment. The jacket design and image was so like Macbride's previous books that I expected the damaged detective to solve another seemingly impossible crime but no. All new, but great all the same. A good read. I'll look out for the next one, Logan or not.
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