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And the Corpse Wore Tartan
- Author
- Stuart MacBride
- Narrator
- Jane MacFarlane
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 2 July 2026
- Run Time
- 6 hours 29 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
From Stuart MacBride, the Sunday Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Logan McRae series.
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
Critics Review
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MacBride is a masterful storyteller with a terrific eye for detail and razor-sharp wit
Karin Slaughter, author of After that Night
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MacBride is a damned fine writer
Peter James, author of Picture You Dead
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Crime fiction of the highest order
Mark Billingham, author of The Last Dance
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Stuart MacBride is an automatic must-read for me . . . always fast, hard, authentic – and different
Lee Child, author of Killing Floor
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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
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Details
- Author
- Stuart MacBride
- Narrator
- Jane MacFarlane
- Duration
- 6 hours 29 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 July 2026
- ISBN
- 9781037424786
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Thriller: serial killers, Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives
Synopsis
From Stuart MacBride, the Sunday Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Logan McRae series.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
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