A new Logan McRae thriller from the bestselling author of Cold Granite and Dying Light, set in gritty Aberdeen. In the pale grey light of a chilly February, Aberdeen is not at its best! There's a rapist prowling the city's cold granite streets, leaving a string of tortured women behind. But while DS Logan McRae's girlfriend is out acting as bait, he's dealing with the blood-drenched body of an unidentified male, dumped outside Accident and Emergency. When a stash of explicit films turns up, all featuring the victim, it looks as if someone in the local bondage community has developed a taste for violent death, and Logan gets dragged into the twilight world of pornographers, sex-shops and S&M. To make matters worse, when they finally arrest the Granite City Rapist, Grampian Police are forced by the courts to let him go: Aberdeen Football Club's star striker has an alibi for every attack. Could they really have got it so badly wrong? Logan thinks so, but the trick will be getting anyone to listen before the real rapist strikes again. Especially as his girlfriend, PC Jackie 'Ball Breaker' Watson, is convinced the footballer is guilty and she's hell-bent on a conviction at any cost!
Stuart MacBride hat bereits in einigen Berufen gearbeitet, bevor er sich dem Schreiben zuwandte. Die dunklen Wasser von Aberdeen war sein erster Roman mit dem Ermittler Logan McRae und sorgte in Großbritannien sofort für Furore. Der Roman wurde als bestes Krimidebüt des Jahres mit dem Barry Award ausgezeichnet. Mittlerweile liegen bereits mehrere Logan-McRae-Romane vor, die die Bestsellerlisten stürmten. Außerdem wurde die Serie als Favorit der Leser mit dem 'Dagger in the Library' ausgezeichnet. Stuart MacBride lebt mit seiner Frau im Nordosten Schottlands.
? John Borowski