Missing and the Dead (Logan Mcrae, Book 9)

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Stuart MacBride: Missing and the Dead (Logan Mcrae, Book 9) (2015, HarperCollins Publishers Limited, Harper)

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Published 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited, Harper.

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978-0-00-749463-7
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One mistake can cost you everything...When you catch a twisted killer there should be a reward, right? What Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae gets instead is a 'development opportunity' out in the depths of rural Aberdeenshire. Welcome to divisional policing - catching drug dealers, shop lifters, vandals and the odd escaped farm animal. Then a little girl's body washes up just outside the sleepy town of Banff, kicking off a massive manhunt. The Major Investigation Team is up from Aberdeen, wanting answers, and they don't care who they trample over to get them. Logan's got enough on his plate keeping B Division together, but DCI Steel wants him back on her team. As his old colleagues stomp around the countryside, burning bridges, Logan gets dragged deeper and deeper into the investigation. One thing's clear: there are dangerous predators lurking in the wilds of Aberdeenshire, and not everyone's going to get …

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A police procedural set in North-Eastern Scotland.

Sergeant Logan McRae and his team have to deal with a great variety of crimes, major and minor, and also have to deal with overlapping investigations by other branches of the police. As the title implies, this book deals mainly with missing and dead persons.

One man is arrested for torturing another, and the children of the torture victim are missing. In another case, the body of a young girl is found, and she appears to have been murdered, but no child of that description has been reported missing. An investigation into the theft of ATMs leads to a drug-dealing suspect, and investigations are sometimes hampered by jurisdictional disputes between different police teams, so the Sergeant McRae finds that he sometimes commended and reprimanded for the same incident.

There are some unexpected plot twists which lead to Sergeant McRae and those he loves …

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Subjects

  • Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
  • Scotland, fiction