- Hardcover: 458 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur (July 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 031233995X
- ISBN-13: 978-0312339951
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (110 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 923,998 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'COLD GRANITE is a powerful reminder that the best contemporary crime fiction is coming out of Scotland. Ferocious and funny, this is Tartan Noir at its best.' Val McDermid
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The Scotsman
"[Cold Granite] is a good read... a promising debut for MacBride and Aberdeen."
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49 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The New Kid On the Block,
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This review is from: Cold Granite (Paperback)
Having read all the Rebus and half way through the Skinners series this was a welcome alternative.
Great debut you instantly warmed to the central character particularly liked the fact that he isn't the all confident all knowing Skinner, Logan is a complex figure full of doubts in both his job ability and his personal life. There's good element of him solving the cases without the sudden leap of inspiration he resolves things with diligent policework and trusting his damaged gut. It is a fairly gruesome book but maybe fairly accurate of the times where only sensational murders do grab the headlines. Certainly going to read his future novels and feel that for a debut novel this ticks a lot of boxes, particularly liked that in a similar vein to Red dragon this alouds to a previous case that has left the central character both physically and mentally scarred but without just spelling it out in one flashback. The setting of Aberdeen I guess is as much a character as any in the book and with Taggart having sewn up Glasgow and Rebus and Skinner dominating Edinburgh, Logan could easily put Aberdeen on the Murder Map.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Debut,
By Gez (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cold Granite (Paperback)
I'm a keen reader of Richard Montanari, and decided to try Stuart McBride based on an Amazon.co.uk recommendation. I wasn't disappointed. Cold Granite is a gripping story that I found difficult to put down. It may not suit everyone as the story does involve child murders - but it is fictional.
I've now started reading Dying Light, and have Broken Skin waiting for me. Good book.
43 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Cold Granite - fast, great debut,
By Nigel MacDonald (Cardiff, Wales) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cold Granite (Hardcover)
I got it home and couldn't put it down. It is a great read, dark, grisly but with some great humour. Regardless of what some people on here have said, I found it believable, the characters were all realistic and I thought that 'lazarus' was particularly good, as were both the DI's and good old 'ball-breaker'. I am half way through, and can't wait to get home and read a bit more...A note to the people that are critical on here, have you any books in print? IF I had written this book, I would be so proud of it. A fantastic (if somewhat gruesome) story, told well and really does grip me to the point where I have no option to read on and on, sleep, work or eating being the only thing interfering so far ! Good work to the author, and look forward to the next in the line (I really do hope that Logan becomes a long term character)
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