All That's Dead

All That’s Dead by Stuart MacBride is a pitch-black Scottish crime novel that pulls you straight into the Highlands, where loneliness, mud and menace feel close enough to touch. When outspoken professor Nicholas Wilson heads out on his usual nightly walk with the dog and doesn’t return, it looks like a vanishing swallowed by the dark.

Inspector Logan McRae would happily avoid a headline-grabbing investigation, but a second disappearance forces his hand. As the media piles on and pressure mounts from every direction, the case curdles from worrying to grotesque when parcels begin arriving with human body parts inside. Someone is staging a message, and McRae has to work out the meaning before the killer adds another name to the list.

Perfect for readers who like gritty police procedurals, serial killer suspense, and Scottish noir with sharp humour and sting-in-the-tail twists.

Step into MacBride’s Aberdeen and see what turns up next.