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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-08-30 Pages: 496 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK The Number One bestselling crime thriller from the award-winning Stuart MacBride.A bloody. brilliant and brutal story of murder. kidnap and revenge.Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret ... Five years ago his daughter. Rebecca. went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday.A year later the first card arrived: homemade. with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front - Rebecca. strapped to a chair . gagged and terrified.Every year another card:. each one worse than the last.The tabloids call him 'The Birthday Boy' He's been snatching girls for twelve years. always in the run-up to their thirteenth birthday. sending the families his homemade cards showing their daughters being slowly tortured to death.But Ash hasn't told anyone about Rebecca's birthday cards - they all think ...
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Stuart MacBride is the No.1 bestselling author of the DS Logan McRae series. His novels have won him the CWA Dagger in the Library, the Barry Award for Best Debut Novel, and Best Breakthrough Author at the ITV3 crime thriller awards. Stuart's other works include Halfhead, a near-future thriller, Sawbones, a novella aimed at adult emergent readers, and several short stories. He lives in the north-east of Scotland with his wife, Fiona, and cat, Grendel.
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Taking a break from his Logan McRae series, MacBride offers a stand-alone whose premise is pure, twisted genius. Ash Henderson, a big, bruising police detective in fictional Oldcastle, Scotland, has been chasing a killer who snatches girls before their thirteenth birthday, tortures them to death, and then sends birthday cards—with gruesome photos—to the girls’ families each year thereafter. The kicker? Henderson has been getting the birthday cards, too, but won’t tell anyone his missing daughter is also a victim: if he’s taken off the case, he’ll lose his chance to catch the “Birthday Boy” himself. This has all the hallmarks of MacBride’s best books—gruesome violence, foul weather, pitch-black humor, and entertainingly mismatched protagonists (Henderson is paired with “freak-show” forensic psychologist Alice McDonald). But despite all this has to offer readers so inclined, MacBride needs an editor who’s not afraid to use a knife, as the book feels about 100 pages and one plot twist too long. On the other hand, those who enjoy spending time in MacBride’s dark world may not mind a bit. --Keir Graff
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- PublisherHarper
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0007472404
- ISBN 13 9780007472406
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages496
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