All things bookular...

The new book is out now, and it's a standalone. That means Logan, DI Steel, DC Rennie, and the rest of Grampian Police get a whole year off to recuperate after all the horrible things I did to them in Shatter The Bones.

Instead, Birthdays For The Dead is a noir tale of revenge, featuring a twisted killer that preys on young girls and tortures their families... Find out more by clicking here.

The Logan McRae series is set in Aberdeen, the Granite City, Oil Capital of Europe, perched on the east coast of Scotland. They always say, "write what you know" so I did - using Aberdeen as the backdrop for a series of horrific crimes, murders, serial killers, and much eating of chips and drinking of beer.

Of these, the only ones I have any direct experience of are beer and chips, but some nice local police officers helped me fill in the rest.

If you want to read the books in chronological order it goes: Cold Granite, Dying Light, Broken Skin, Flesh House, Blind Eye, Dark Blood, and Shatter The Bones. Mind you, I wanted Cold Granite to read as if it was from the middle of a series (lots of events from the past that are never explained) so you should be able to dip in and out in any order you fancy.

In addition to the Logan McRae series, I've also done a near future thriller called HALFHEAD and a novella called SAWBONES.

And believe it or not, they've both got me into trouble...

Last but not least, are the short stories. In addition to the ones in books, there are a couple available online. There were more on the old website, but I'm thinking about doing something with them, so they're all secret at the moment. Secret and naughty.