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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, this is Tartan Noir at its best’
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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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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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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.
Way way below par. Please don't write another one of these Mr MacBride.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
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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not one of stuarts best
Had a good start,makes you think that its going to be good then by the time your on the last 8 pages you know its not,all i kept thinking was (what was the point of that bit of... Read more
Published 25 days ago by james
Kindle new book
I would love to review this book but seeing as I only read a third of it before my kindle decided to crash and burn I am unable to do so. Read more
Published 28 days ago by Barry
Birthdays for the dead
I have read every one of Stuart MacBride's books and have never written a review before on Amazon. However as I enjoy his books so much I felt compelled to pass on my thoughts. Read more
Published 29 days ago by SF
Couldn't put it down
Having read all of the Logan Macrae books I was a bit nervous with the change of character, however MacBride did not fail to deliver. Yet another cracker of book. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Standfree1903
It kept me hooked
Birthday for the Dead is an enjoyable thriller. The style appears different from previous novels as it is written in first person, but it did not put me off as I was kept hooked... Read more
Published 1 month ago by P. DATTA
Stuart Mcbride at his best!
Loved the new charachters and the plot was good - did not know until the end the full story - no hints really till the end! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Milliemoo
Bloody fantastic
This is the first Stuart MacBride book that I've read and it's left me craving for more. It really does grip you from the first page to the last and what beautifully dry humour. Read more
Published 2 months ago by the elf
Hooked and uncomfortable
This book was hard reading but I could not put it down. It was not like his other books at all and I did not enjoy the violence but it made the whole package work. Read more
Published 2 months ago by JJ&J
not up to standard
After reading all the DS Logan books I found this to be of a very poor standard. If this is the start of a new serries I will be giving it a miss. Read more
Published 3 months ago by les howard
Birthdays for the Dead
Could not get into this book. Did not find the subject to my taste at all. Found it a bit too confusing trying to get the characters sorted. Did not finish the book. Read more
Published 3 months ago by farmyard
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