Birthdays for the Dead

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Twelve years. Twelve dead girls. Thirteen will be unlucky for some.

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: home-made, 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. Hes been snatching girls for twelve years, always just before their thirteenth birthday, killing them slowly, then torturing their families with his homemade cards.

But Ash hasnt told anyone what really happened to Rebecca they all think she ran away because if anyone finds out, hell be taken off the investigation. And hes sacrificed too much to give up before his daughters murderer gets what he deserves

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Praise for Birthdays for the Dead:

MacBride is a damned fine writer no one does dark and gritty like him Peter James

The master of murderous mayhem is back to his best with a belter of a book a page-turner The Sun

Praise for Stuart MacBride:

Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order Mark Billingham

Ferocious and funny, this is Tartan Noir at its best Val McDermid

Stuart MacBrides thrillers just keep getting better Express

Author Bio

Stuart MacBride is the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Logan McRae and Ash Henderson novels. He's also published standalones, novellas and short stories as well as a children's picture book. Stuart lives in the northeast of Scotland with his wife Fiona, cats Grendel, Gherkin, Onion and Beetroot, some hens, horses and a vast collection of assorted weeds.