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  • Published: 7 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9781473592551
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $26.99

The Dead of Winter

The chilling new thriller from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Logan McRae series




DI Victoria Montgomery-Porter is stranded in a town full of killers in the darkly entertaining new crime novel from number one Sunday Times bestselling author Stuart MacBride.

How can you tell who did it when everyone is guilty?

It was supposed to be a simple delivery job for DI Victoria Montgomery-Porter and her sidekick, Edward Reekie - pick up a prisoner from HMP Grampian and take them to their new state-funded home - but life's never that straightforward.

From the outside, Glenfarach looks like a quaint, sleepy, snow-dusted village, nestled in the heart of Cairngorms National Park. But things aren't quite what they seem. The place is thick with security cameras, it doesn't appear on any modern map, and there's a strict nine-o'clock curfew, because Glenfarach is the last resort for criminals who've served their sentences but can't be safely released into the general population.

Victoria's just supposed to drop her 'guest' off and head back to Aberdeen, before the approaching blizzards shut everything down, but when an ex-cop-turned-gangster is discovered skinned alive in his bungalow, someone needs to take charge.

The weather's closing in, tensions are mounting, and time's running out - something nasty has come to Glenfarach, and Victoria is standing right in its way...

  • Published: 7 February 2023
  • ISBN: 9781473592551
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $26.99

About the author

Stuart MacBride

Stuart MacBride is the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae and Ash Henderson novels. He's also published standalones, novellas, and short stories, as well as a slightly twisted children's picture book for slightly twisted children.

Stuart lives in the northeast of Scotland with his wife Fiona, cats Gherkin, Onion and Beetroot, some hens, some horses, and an impressive collection of assorted weeds.

For more information visit:

StuartMacBride.com
Facebook.com/stuartmacbridebooks
@StuartMacBride

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Praise for The Dead of Winter

'Often very funny and concludes with a glorious twist'

The Times

MacBride is one of this country's finest crime writers, but he is no exponent of 'cosy' crime, as he demonstrates here with this fierce, dark tale of a young detective delivering a prisoner to a village in the Scottish Highlands to spend his last days. . . Written in MacBride's familiar tongue-in-cheek style, it fizzes from every page

Daily Mail

A tale with genuine jeopardy that is also sheer entertainment. It's a high wire balancing act, but MacBride never falters

Scotland on Sunday

Not your usual crime story, this is a darkly funny Fawlty Towers

Sun

A classic, twisty thriller

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