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Stuart MacBride
Stuart MacBride
Stuart MacBride

Stuart MacBride

Aberdeen, Scotland, born 1969
About MeGrowing up in Aberdeen, Stuart MacBride tried his hand at everything from acting to architecture and offshore working, before finding his true calling as a writer. Today he is an internationally successful author, best known for his Logan McRae and Ash Henderson detective novels set in the ‘Granite City’ of Aberdeen.

Stuart secured his first publishing deal with his novel Halfhead, but it was Cold Granite featuring Detective Logan McRae which cemented his career with its brutal and gripping writing. Published in 2005 this was the first of his Logan McRae crime thriller novels and was praised as “some of the grittiest crime-writing in the field”.

His novels are set in his native city of Aberdeen, which forms the backdrop as he unravels the dark underworld of his imagination.
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