Book description
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 she's just run away from home - because if anyone finds out, he'll
be taken off the investigation. And he's sacrificed too much to give up
before his daughter's killer gets what he deserves… 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 MacBride's thrillers just keep getting better' Express 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.
