Stuart MacBride Novella 2026 - (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Move Over Miss Marple . . .

The great and the not-so-good are gathered at Skirivour Castle Hotel, in the heart of the Highlands, for the wedding of the year - but they weren't expecting Detective Sergeant Roberta Steel to crash their party. And get horribly, horribly drunk.

The whole valley's been cut off by a massive thunderstorm and the phone lines are down, so when the father-of-the-bride's body is discovered - decoratively impaled on a stag's head in the hotel lobby - it's up to DS Steel to find out whodunit. Which isn't easy when you've got a monstrous hangover and only a world-weary sergeant and a halfwit police constable for backup.

With no witnesses and every wedding guest a suspect, Roberta will need to use every one of her little grey cells if she's going to catch the killer and get out of there alive.

Praise for Stuart MacBride:

'MacBride is a damned fine writer' - Peter James, author of Picture You Dead

'Dark and brilliantly written' - Linwood Barclay, author of I Will Ruin You

'Crime fiction of the highest order' - Mark Billingham, author of The Last Dance

Review Quotes

"MacBride is a masterful storyteller with a terrific eye for detail and razor-sharp wit" --Karin Slaughter, author of After that Night

"MacBride is a damned fine writer" --Peter James, author of Picture You Dead

"Crime fiction of the highest order" --Mark Billingham, author of The Last Dance

"Stuart MacBride is an automatic must-read for me . . . always fast, hard, authentic - and different" --Lee Child, author of Killing Floor

"Stuart MacBride is one of the best in the business. Always beautifully written, evocative settings and characters dripping with authenticity and a story you can't get out of your head. Stuart delivers every single time" --Steve Cavanagh, author of Witness 8