Stuart MacBride is a Scottish writer, whose crime thrillers are set in the "Granite City" of Aberdeen, with Detective Sergeant Logan McRae as protagonist.
Biography Stuart MacBride was born 27 February 1969 in Dumbarton, near Glasgow and raised in Aberdeen. His occupations included scrubbing toilets offshore, graphic design, web design and IT/computer programming. He studied architecture at Heriot-Watt University.
MacBride's publishing deal was secured with the writing of Halfhead; however, the publishers were more interested in Cold Granite, concerning DS Logan McRae. He was signed on a three-book Logan deal, which was further extended to six books. In 2009 he signed another deal, allowing him to write two more Logan books, and two standalone novels, the first of which due after the sixth instalment of the Logan McRae series. In an interview for the Alibi television channel, MacBride indicated he considered R. D. Wingfield a "literary inspiration". MacBride's novels, particularly those featuring Logan McRae, have been described as Tartan Noir, which has placed him alongside Ian Rankin and Val McDermid as authors who have also been described as luminaries of the genre.
He now lives in Aberdeenshire with his wife, Fiona.
Macbride is one of the initial batch of ten people in the Aberdeen Hall of Heroes, being awarded World Stovies Champion in 2014. He also won Celebrity Mastermind in 2017 with a specialist subject on the life and works of A. A. Milne.
Bibliography
Logan McRae novels
2005 – Cold Granite 2006 – Dying Light 2007 – Broken Skin (published in America as Bloodshot) 2008 – Flesh House 2009 – Blind Eye 2010 – Dark Blood 2011 – Shatter the Bones 2013 – Close to the Bone 2015 – 22 Dead Little Bodies 2015 – The Missing and the Dead 2016 – In the Cold Dark Ground 2018 – The Blood Road 2019 – All That's Dead 2025 – This House of Burning Bones
Roberta Steel novels 2017 – Now We Are Dead 2026 - And the Corpse Wore Tartan 2026 - Blood, Rust and Steel
Oldcastle novels 2012 – Birthdays for the Dead 2014 – A Song for the Dying 2017 – A Dark So Deadly 2021 – The Coffinmaker’s Garden 2022 – No Less the Devil 2024 – In a Place of Darkness
Standalone 2009 – Halfhead (Writing as Stuart B. Macbride) 2023 – The Dead of Winter
Other works 2008 – Sawbones (A novella) 2011 – Twelve Days of Winter (A short story collection) 2012 – Partners in Crime (Two Logan and Steel short stories: Bad Heir Day and Stramash) 2014 – The 45% Hangover (A Logan and Steel novella) 2024 - The Tasting Menu (A short story)
Awards Won, Barry Award for Best First Novel, 2006 (for Cold Granite) Won, CWA Dagger in the Library Award, 2007 Won, ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Breakthrough Author of the Year, 2008 (for Broken Skin) Nominated, International Thriller Writers Awards, Best Debut Novel, 2006 (for Cold Granite) Nominated, Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2006 (for Cold Granite) Nominated, Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2007 (for Dying Light) Nominated, Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel, 2007 (for Dying Light) Nominated, Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2009 (for Broken Skin)
See also List of Logan McRae characters
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