The Missing and the Dead (Hardcover) by Stuart MacBride

from ssimon2000

3.5 starsStuart MacBride is one of my favorite authors. The characters he has created in this series are simply fantastic: from long-suffering Acting DI Logan McRae, who somehow always ends up on top, to the crusty and disgusting DCI Roberta Steel, along with all of the supporting cast of charact...

from adpaton

To find Detective Inspector Logan McRae in uniform doing divisional policing in the wilds of rural Aberdeenshire rather than in his native Aberdeen is quite a change. On the upside, he has escaped from DCI Roberta Steel, his potty-mouthed impossible boss, but Logan is used to big city crime so vi...

from bah195

Detective Sargent Logan MacRae gets reassigned to the small town of Banff in northeast Scotland when the body of a little girl is found in an outdoor pool. MacRae thinks he's found a case worthy of his talents, until the Aberdeen major incident team takes over. MacRae has never been good at takin...

from Carol420

Logan McRae is a Sergeant in this book. As a part of his "promotion" he is sent to an outlying division to gain "experience". It's not a very nice area and he soon becomes caught up with drug runners, domestics violence investigations, and anything else they might want to throw at him. Of course ...

from runner56

The usual great fun, multi layered, gritty Scottish detective story. Sergeant Logan McRae as always ever troubled and hindered by the sarcastic often witty comments from the politically incorrect DI Roberta Steel.The body of a little girl washes up on a sleepy coastal town and it is this case tha...