Cold Granite

Logan McRae, Book 1

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Steve Worsley

Stuart MacBride's number one best-selling crime series opens with this award-winning debut.

DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets.

Winter in Aberdeen: murder, mayhem and terrible weather...

It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Three-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch: strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. And he's only the first. There's a serial killer stalking the Granite City, and the local media are baying for blood.

Soon the dead are piling up in the morgue almost as fast as the snow on the streets, and Logan knows time is running out. More children are going missing. More are going to die. And if Logan isn't careful, he could end up joining them.

©2005 Stuart MacBride (P)2005 HarperCollins Publishers

Gripping stuff

Narrator brings great life to the characters & McBride does it best! Logan.. You cant help but fall in love with him!

Just when I think I have things figured out

the story takes a left turn, and I’m left trying to see where it has gone now. Excellent writing, kept me guessing up to just about the end.

New for me...

I think this was a bit slow to start for me but picked up. People complained the story was gruesome, that it was too much BUT, unfortunately crimes like what is portrayed in this novel is what our society is like.
I enjoyed the characters, the true to life story line, by the end, I couldn't stop too I finished it!
I loved the fact that everything was concluded and didn't leave you wondering what happened.

Thoroughly enjoyed!

I discovered Author Stuart McBride while listening to a BBC World Svc interview- great find.

Very twisty and turny

Fast paced Scottish detective story with more twists and turns than probably any other I’ve listened to! Couldn’t stop listening.

Great Scottish Mystery

This was the first Stuart MacBride I’d read or listened to. What a great surprise! “Cold Granite” is the first of the Logan McCrae series; it’s dark, with considerable violence, but also sometimes very funny. The narrator is spot-on, capturing both the characters & the mood of the story. I’m looking forward to hearing the rest of this series.

Really, really, really good

Having finished the series, I'm going back to the 1st book to say how much I've enjoyed the journey. Also, Steve Worsley is the perfect performer -- he makes it come alive.

Good

I love crime dramas and this was very good. I felt nauseous throughout most of the book due to the gruesome details of them digging through the roadkill sheds…. I wish I loved Logan a bit more but he’s hard to connect to.

Great new series to start reading

This book came up as a suggestion in Audible, when I was finishing another book. Decided to follow the Audible recommendation ( not the first time, I have been very happy with what Audible is suggesting to me.
I expected this to be a typical murder investigation, depressed police man who drinks to much 😊 ( yes the location in north scotland ).
This book took me by surprice, it provided much more what I was looking for. Interesting characters, interesting and complex murder plot, etc ( yes I grew up reading Agatha Christie 😊 ). Wheather it is DI Inch, PC Watchon, or any if the other characters from the book. Similary in a aprox 14 hour audio book, the plot is unfolding during the last 3 hours ( not only the last 30 minutes as I see to many times ).
Definently will look for more books from this serie.

I liked this one

Intelligent, chock full of interesting characters who "look like cast of Deliverance" as they bear up under winter's rain, snow, wind and cold. The bits of humor wing through when one least expects them. Listen closely, the author entertains from first page to last. And the setting is Scotland. So interesting.