Reading order · 13 books · 2005 to 2025 · Set in Aberdeen
Logan McRae Books in Order
Logan McRae is a detective sergeant, later inspector, in a grim, rain-soaked Aberdeen, where he works under the foul-mouthed, chaotic Detective Inspector Roberta Steel. Dark, violent and very funny crime fiction.
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Series facts
- Books
- 13
- Published
- 2005 to 2025
- First book
- Cold Granite
- Latest
- This House of Burning Bones (2025)
- Setting
- Set in Aberdeen
The reading order
Every Logan McRae book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.
13 books · Set in Aberdeen
- 1Cold Granite2005With Logan McRaeDetective Sergeant Logan McRae returns to work in Aberdeen after a year recovering from a near-fatal stabbing, and on his first day the body of a little boy is found in a ditch.Buy on Amazon
- 2Dying Light2006With Logan McRaeLogan is moved to Detective Inspector Steel’s team of misfits, as a series of murders and deadly fires spread through Aberdeen.Buy on Amazon
- 3Broken Skin2007With Logan McRaeLogan McRae’s Aberdeen is beset by a run of violent attacks, a body that leads into the city’s darker underground, and a team stretched to breaking point.Buy on Amazon
- 4Flesh House2008With Logan McRaeHuman remains turn up in meat from a processing plant, and Aberdeen fears that a notorious killer known as the Flesher has returned.Buy on Amazon
- 5Blind Eye2009With Logan McRaeSomeone is attacking Polish men in Aberdeen and leaving them blinded, and Logan has to find the attacker before the city explodes.Buy on Amazon
- 6Dark Blood2010With Logan McRaeA convicted sex offender moves to Aberdeen under police protection, and Logan is assigned to keep him safe, while a local businessman goes missing.Buy on Amazon
- 7Shatter the Bones2011With Logan McRaeA singer from a television talent show and her young daughter are kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand a ransom from the public.Buy on Amazon
- 8Close to the Bone2013With Logan McRaeA man’s body is found chained to a stake and burned, in a scene copied from a popular series of novels.Buy on Amazon
- 9The Missing and the Dead2015With Logan McRaeLogan, exiled to the countryside north of Aberdeen, investigates the death of a young girl found in a harbour.Buy on Amazon
- 10In the Cold Dark Ground2016With Logan McRaeA body is found in the woods, and Logan’s boss, Steel, is under investigation.Buy on Amazon
- 11The Blood Road2018With Logan McRaeA body is found in a crashed car, and the dead man is a police officer who supposedly died two years earlier.Buy on Amazon
- 12All That’s Dead2019With Logan McRaeA prominent nationalist academic disappears, and body parts begin to turn up.Buy on Amazon
- 13This House of Burning Bones2025With Logan McRaeA break-in at a mansion, a firebombed hostel and a celebrity kidnapping land on Logan McRae’s desk just as he is made acting DCI of a force crippled by flu.Buy on Amazon
Do you need to read them in order?
Read in order, starting with Cold Granite.
Who appears in which book
The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.
| Book | Logan McRae | Simon Rennie | Roberta Steel | David Insch | Samantha | Wee Hamish Mowat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Cold Granite | LLead | ·Minor | MMajor | |||
| 2 Dying Light | LLead | ·Minor | MMajor | MMajor | ||
| 3 Broken Skin | LLead | ·Minor | MMajor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
| 4 Flesh House | LLead | ·Minor | MMajor | MMajor | ·Minor | |
| 5 Blind Eye | LLead | ·Minor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor | |
| 6 Dark Blood | LLead | ·Minor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor | MMajor |
| 7 Shatter the Bones | LLead | ·Minor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor | |
| 8 Close to the Bone | LLead | ·Minor | MMajor | MMajor | MMajor | |
| 9 The Missing and the Dead | LLead | ·Minor | MMajor | ·Minor | ||
| 10 In the Cold Dark Ground | LLead | ·Minor | MMajor | |||
| 11 The Blood Road | LLead | ·Minor | MMajor | |||
| 12 All That’s Dead | LLead | ·Minor | MMajor | |||
| 13 This House of Burning Bones | LLead | ·Minor | MMajor |
Characters in the Logan McRae books
6 characters from Stuart MacBride’s chart, with the number of Logan McRae books each appears in.
| Character | Books | First in this series |
|---|---|---|
| Logan McRaeDetective Sergeant, later Inspector, in Aberdeen | 13 | Cold Granite 2005 |
| Simon RennieDetective Constable | 13 | Cold Granite 2005 |
| Roberta SteelFoul-mouthed Detective Inspector | 12 | Dying Light 2006 |
| David InschDetective Inspector | 7 | Cold Granite 2005 |
| SamanthaLogan’s girlfriend, a scene examiner | 6 | Broken Skin 2007 |
| Wee Hamish MowatAberdeen crime boss | 4 | Broken Skin 2007 |
Crossovers with Stuart MacBride’s other series
- Roberta Steel: Logan McRae also appears in 2 of its books