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Start with Cold Granite and continue through all 12 books in the listed reading order.
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Start with Cold Granite
Book 1 by Stuart MacBride • Published 2005
Back on duty after a year-long recovery, DS Logan McRae is thrown into a case involving abducted and murdered children on Aberdeen’s frozen streets. With the press baying for blood and a leak inside the force, every m...
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Logan Mcrae reading order
Ends with All That's Dead
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Book 1:Cold Granite
Stuart MacBride • 2005
Back on duty after a year-long recovery, DS Logan McRae is thrown into a case involving abducted and murdered children on Aberdeen’s frozen streets. With the press baying for blood and a leak inside the force, every m...
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Book 2:Dying Light
Stuart MacBride • 2006
Demoted to DI Steel’s so‑called Screw‑up Squad after a botched raid, Logan McRae investigates a prostitute’s murder and a deadly arson attack. As more bodies appear, links emerge between the red‑light killings, politi...
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Book 3:Broken Skin
Stuart MacBride • 2007
A serial rapist is torturing women across Aberdeen, and Logan McRae’s partner Jackie is being used as bait. At the same time, a blood‑soaked corpse points Logan toward the city’s kinky underground, where a football st...
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Book 4:Flesh House
Stuart MacBride • 2008
When a shipping container packed with butchered human meat turns up in Aberdeen Harbour, whispers of a cannibal killer known as the Flesher resurface. Logan McRae must reopen a notorious case and untangle decades of l...
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Book 5:Blind Eye
Aline Templeton • 2023
In the prosperous fishing port of Tarleton, a young detective is shattered after seeing a doctor throw herself from a cliff and rumours of extortion poison the town. When a local farmer is murdered, DCI Kelso Strang u...
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Book 6:Dark Blood
Stuart MacBride • 2010
Sex offender Richard Knox is released under strict supervision into Logan McRae’s patch, and furious locals want him gone. When a body is found buried in concrete, Logan’s attempt to protect the community drags him de...
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Book 7:Shatter the Bones
Stuart MacBride • 2011
A mother‑and‑daughter folk duo vanish while starring on a national talent show, and their kidnappers demand a multimillion‑pound ransom raised by horrified fans. Logan McRae races to find them while juggling a vicious...
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Book 8:Close to the Bone
Stuart MacBride • 2013
Victims are being strangled, stabbed and burned with tyres around their necks, in scenes that echo a witchcraft film shooting in Aberdeen. As bones appear on his doorstep and two teens vanish, Logan McRae untangles co...
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Book 9:The Missing and the Dead
Stuart MacBride • 2014
Punished for bending the rules, Logan McRae is exiled from Aberdeen to run a small rural station. A little girl’s body in a derelict outdoor pool, grieving parents, and unfinished business from his last case soon turn...
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Book 10:In the Cold Dark Ground
Stuart MacBride • 2016
Sergeant Logan McRae juggles a buried‑in‑the‑woods murder, pressure from Professional Standards, and the impending death of Aberdeen crime lord Wee Hamish Mowat, who’s chosen Logan as his unlikely heir. With gangsters...
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Book 11:The Blood Road
Stuart MacBride • 2018
Working in Professional Standards, Logan McRae is called to a car crash and finds the driver is a detective inspector who supposedly died two years ago. Investigating Bell’s vanished life pulls Logan into a disturbing...
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Book 12:All That's Dead
Stuart MacBride • 2019
An outspoken English unionist lecturer disappears from Aberdeen, leaving only bloodstains behind. Back from medical leave, Logan McRae is loaned to a politically explosive case linking hardline nationalists, past extr...
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What is the best order to read the Logan Mcrae series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with Cold Granite.
How many books are in the Logan Mcrae series?
There are 12 books currently listed in the Logan Mcrae series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Logan Mcrae series?
New readers should start with Cold Granite, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Logan Mcrae series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 2005 to 2023.