Birthdays for the Dead
- Author Stuart MacBride
- Narrator Ian Hanmore
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 5 January 2012
- Run Time 14 hours and 12 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
Twelve years. Twelve dead girls. Thirteen will be unlucky for some.
The Number One bestselling crime thriller from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. A bloody, brilliant and brutal story of murder, kidnap and revenge.
Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret…
Five years ago his daughter, Rebecca, went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: home-made, with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front – Rebecca, strapped to a chair, gagged and terrified. Every year another card: each one worse than the last.
The tabloids call him ‘The Birthday Boy’. He’s been snatching girls for twelve years, always just before their thirteenth birthday, killing them slowly, then torturing their families with his homemade cards.
But Ash hasn’t told anyone what really happened to Rebecca – they all think she ran away – because if anyone finds out, he’ll be taken off the investigation. And he’s sacrificed too much to give up before his daughter’s murderer gets what he deserves…
Critics Review
Praise for Birthdays for the Dead:
'MacBride is a damned fine writer - no one does dark and gritty like him' Peter James
'The master of murderous mayhem is back to his best with a belter of a book ... a page-turner' The Sun
Praise for Stuart MacBride:
'Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order' Mark Billingham
'Ferocious and funny, this is Tartan Noir at its best' Val McDermid
'Stuart MacBride's thrillers just keep getting better' Express
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