Stuart MacBride Books in Order

During a sweltering Aberdeen summer, half the police force is off sick, a hotel housing migrants has been firebombed, and a massive protest is days away. With only a skeleton crew, DI Logan McRae must run a major murder inquiry while hostile media fans the flames.

Three friends on a celebratory foodie road trip score a coveted reservation at an ultra‑exclusive restaurant on a private Scottish island. As the courses arrive, old secrets surface, and it becomes clear that one of them is a killer and dinner is a deadly game.

Newly promoted DC Angus MacVicar joins Oldcastle’s biggest case, tracking the Fortnight Killer, who targets couples and leaves one body posed as a message while the second vanishes. Saddled with a combative FBI psychologist, Angus is pulled into conspiracies that make the investigation dangerously personal.

DC Edward Reekie thinks escorting a dying prisoner to Glenfarach, a remote “retirement” village for the most dangerous ex‑offenders, will be a simple job. When an ex‑cop gangster is found tortured to death and a blizzard seals them in, he’s trapped inside a lethal closed community.

Seventeen months into the hunt for a mutilating serial killer dubbed the Bloodsmith, DS Lucy McVeigh is getting nowhere. When a former child murderer begs her for protection from a shadowy “They”, Lucy’s own buried trauma resurfaces and the case takes a far stranger, deadlier turn.

As a violent storm eats away a clifftop house, human remains are exposed in the collapsing garden, revealing years of hidden murders. Ex‑detective Ash Henderson joins a chaotic investigation to track the killer before crucial evidence vanishes into the sea.

An outspoken English unionist lecturer disappears from Aberdeen, leaving only bloodstains behind. Back from medical leave, Logan McRae is loaned to a politically explosive case linking hardline nationalists, past extremist ties inside the police, and a string of disappearances that could ignite a wider backlash.

Working in Professional Standards, Logan McRae is called to a car crash and finds the driver is a detective inspector who supposedly died two years ago. Investigating Bell’s vanished life pulls Logan into a disturbing abuse network and forces him to confront corruption inside the job.

Demoted for framing a suspected rapist, DS Roberta Steel is meant to be chasing shoplifters and keeping her head down. Instead she drags young DC Tufty into a risky, often hilarious off‑the‑books campaign to stop Jack Wallace before more women are attacked.

Dumped in Police Scotland’s Misfit Mob after taking the blame for a ruined crime scene, DC Callum MacGregor expects nothing but drudge work. A stolen mummy and a body preserved like a relic instead lead the unit into a sprawling, deeply personal serial‑killer case.

Sergeant Logan McRae juggles a buried‑in‑the‑woods murder, pressure from Professional Standards, and the impending death of Aberdeen crime lord Wee Hamish Mowat, who’s chosen Logan as his unlikely heir. With gangsters circling and bosses watching, every decision could ruin either his career or his soul.

This collection brings together a short Logan McRae novel and three Logan‑and‑Steel tales, from a supposedly routine week that spirals into multiple deaths to a disastrous island manhunt, a nightmare‑before‑Christmas case, and a referendum night investigation gone wildly off script.

Punished for bending the rules, Logan McRae is exiled from Aberdeen to run a small rural station. A little girl’s body in a derelict outdoor pool, grieving parents, and unfinished business from his last case soon turn quiet countryside duty into something far more harrowing.

On the night of Scotland’s independence referendum, Acting DI Logan McRae is sent to track down a missing campaigner. Street tensions are rising, DI Steel keeps hijacking the operation, and a straightforward welfare check turns into a very messy political nightmare.

A mischievous little skeleton in a pink knitted jumper blunders through school, witches and bedtime in three short adventures. Written and illustrated for younger readers, these tales are playful, slightly spooky and a very different side of MacBride’s imagination.

Victims are being strangled, stabbed and burned with tyres around their necks, in scenes that echo a witchcraft film shooting in Aberdeen. As bones appear on his doorstep and two teens vanish, Logan McRae untangles copycat murders, gang feuds, and his own haunted past.

Eight years after a sadistic killer called the Inside Man vanished, bodies with plastic dolls stitched into their wounds start appearing again. Disgraced ex‑detective Ash Henderson is hauled out of prison to help catch him, balancing justice, revenge, and survival.

This duo of Logan McRae and Roberta Steel stories sends Logan to a chaotic island manhunt in one case and drops Steel into a disastrous Christmas missing‑person investigation in the other, showcasing the series’ mix of sharp banter, violence, and dark comedy.

Detective Constable Ash Henderson hunts a killer who abducts girls before their thirteenth birthdays and sends families taunting Polaroid cards. Ash hides that his own missing daughter is among the victims, fuelling a desperate, rule‑breaking investigation.

Twelve interlinked stories follow thieves, small‑time dealers, politicians and undertakers through a bleak North‑East Scotland December. Each tale adds another piece to a darkly comic picture of crime, bad decisions and unexpected payback in the run‑up to Christmas.

A mother‑and‑daughter folk duo vanish while starring on a national talent show, and their kidnappers demand a multimillion‑pound ransom raised by horrified fans. Logan McRae races to find them while juggling a vicious drug case and a personal tragedy that shatters his home life.

Sex offender Richard Knox is released under strict supervision into Logan McRae’s patch, and furious locals want him gone. When a body is found buried in concrete, Logan’s attempt to protect the community drags him deep into vigilantism, political pressure, and brutal retribution.

Set in a near‑future Glasgow, Halfhead imagines a world where the worst offenders are surgically mutilated and turned into silent labourers. When a supposedly “halfheaded” mass murderer appears to kill again, investigator Will Hunter uncovers a conspiracy that shatters this brutal system.

Someone is hunting Aberdeen’s Polish workers, leaving them beaten, maimed, and with their eyes burned out. As racial tension spirals and a gang war brews, Logan McRae and foul‑mouthed DI Roberta Steel push the law to stop an escalating hate‑fueled killer.

In this American‑set novella, a sadistic serial killer nicknamed Sawbones abducts teenage girls and leaves the FBI floundering. When he snatches the daughter of a New York crime boss, a violent rescue mission hurtles across the country, blurring the line between justice and revenge.

When a shipping container packed with butchered human meat turns up in Aberdeen Harbour, whispers of a cannibal killer known as the Flesher resurface. Logan McRae must reopen a notorious case and untangle decades of lies before the slaughter starts again.

A serial rapist is torturing women across Aberdeen, and Logan McRae’s partner Jackie is being used as bait. At the same time, a blood‑soaked corpse points Logan toward the city’s kinky underground, where a football star and violent fantasies collide.

Demoted to DI Steel’s so‑called Screw‑up Squad after a botched raid, Logan McRae investigates a prostitute’s murder and a deadly arson attack. As more bodies appear, links emerge between the red‑light killings, political corruption, and Logan’s own past mistakes.

Back on duty after a year-long recovery, DS Logan McRae is thrown into a case involving abducted and murdered children on Aberdeen’s frozen streets. With the press baying for blood and a leak inside the force, every mistake could cost another life.