Stuart MacBride Books in Order

Stuart MacBride is a Scottish crime author and No.1 Sunday Times bestseller, best known for the Logan McRae series, a long-running police procedural set in Aberdeen that has sold over 6.5 million copies and been translated into twenty-two languages. He is one of the main names associated with tartan noir, alongside Ian Rankin and Val McDermid. His debut, Cold Granite, published in 2005, won the Barry Award for Best First Novel, and he has since won the CWA Dagger in the Library and the ITV3 Crime Thriller Breakthrough Author Award.

This page lists all Stuart MacBride books in order, including the Logan McRae series and its spin-off DS Roberta Steel series, the Ash Henderson series, standalones, short stories, and books written under the name Stuart B. MacBride.

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Logan McRae Series (Books in Order)

The Logan McRae series follows Detective Sergeant Logan McRae, a police officer based in Aberdeen who works violent crime cases in Scotland’s “Granite City.” Logan is promoted to Inspector halfway through the series, and the cases grow darker and and politically more polarized as the books go on. His long-running working relationship with the chaotic, foul-mouthed DI Roberta Steel is present in the whole series, and Roberta becomes more important in the later books, so much that she gets her own series later on.

Reading Order

  1. Cold Granite, 2005
  2. Dying Light, 2006
  3. Broken Skin, 2007 (also titled Bloodshot)
  4. Flesh House, 2008
  5. Blind Eye, 2009
  6. Dark Blood, 2010
  7. Shatter the Bones, 2011
  8. Close to the Bone, 2012
  9. The Missing and the Dead, 2014
  10. In the Cold Dark Ground, 2016
  11. The Blood Road, 2018
  12. All That’s Dead, 2019
  13. This House of Burning Bones, 2025

Logan and Steel Short Stories and Collections

DS Roberta Steel Series (Books in Order)

The DS Roberta Steel spin off series follows DI Steel who, after being demoted to DS after framing a suspect, she starts an unofficial campaign to stop a man she knows is guilty while keeping her job intact. The series, which is somewhat wittier than the Logan series, focuses on Roberta’s rather abrasive personality and her willingness to bend rules a little bit too much.

Reading Order

Ash Henderson Series (Books in Order)

The Ash Henderson series follows Detective Constable Ash Henderson, a police officer working in the fictional Scottish town of Oldcastle whose daughter was taken by a serial killer known as the Birthday Boy. Ash has spent five years secretly investigating the disappearance of his daughter, and the series, not part of the Logan McRae universe, mostly centers on Ash’s private obsession that subtly runs behind every case he takes on.

Books in Order

  1. Birthdays for the Dead, 2012
  2. A Song for the Dying, 2014
  3. The Coffinmaker’s Garden, 2021

Standalone Novels

Short Stories and Novellas

Short Story Collections and Anthologies

Picture Books

Writing as Stuart B. MacBride

Stuart MacBride Biography

Stuart MacBride is a Scottish crime author whose work includes the Logan McRae series, the Ash Henderson series, and the DS Roberta Steel novels. He has published more than twenty books since his debut in 2005.
Official website: stuartmacbride.com

Born on 27 February 1969 in Dumbarton, near Glasgow, Stuart MacBride moved to Aberdeen at the age of two and grew up there. He studied architecture at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh but did not complete the degree. Before writing full time, he worked as a graphic and web designer, computer programmer, actor, undertaker, and studio manager of a nationwide marketing company, experiences that later helped some of the settings and professions included in his novels.

Cold Granite, his debut novel that started the Logan McRae series, was published by HarperCollins in 2005 after a deal that grew from a three-book contract to six, then was expanded further. It was technically his fifth attempt at writing a novel, as the publishers were initially more interested in Halfhead, a sci-fi thriller he wrote under the name Stuart B. MacBride, but pushed him toward the crime series instead, particularly on the “tartan noir” subgenre set in Scotland. The Logan McRae books became a No.1 Sunday Times bestselling series, and his novels have sold over 6.5 million copies worldwide. The Logan McRae universe also includes a spin-off series featuring DS Roberta Steel. In addition, Stuart MacBride has also written the Ash Henderson series, set in the fictional town of Oldcastle, as well as standalone crime novels and short stories and collections.

Stuart MacBride has also been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Dundee and Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. He lives in the northeast of Scotland with his wife Fiona.

Stuart MacBride Awards and Honors

Awards

  • Cold Granite – Barry Award for Best First Novel (2006)
  • CWA Dagger in the Library (2007)
  • Broken Skin – ITV3 Crime Thriller Award, Breakthrough Author of the Year (2008)
  • ITV3 Crime Thriller Hall of Fame (2012)
  • Honorary Doctorate, University of Dundee (2015)
  • Honorary Doctorate, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (2017)

Nominations and Shortlists

  • Cold Granite – Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (2007)
  • Dying Light – Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel (2007)
  • Dying Light – Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (2008)
  • Broken Skin – Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (2009)
  • Dark Blood – Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (2011)
  • Birthdays for the Dead – Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (2013)
  • In the Cold Dark Ground – McIlvanney Prize (2016)
  • The Missing and the Dead – Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (2016)
  • All That’s Dead – McIlvanney Prize (2019)
  • The Coffinmaker’s Garden – McIlvanney Prize (2021)

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  2. During this close down because of Covid 19 I started using the little libraries that are place on people’s lawns. I happened upon a Logan McRae character and Stuart MacBride author. Since then I have placed a hold on my library for just about all his books. Just into the Roberta Steel book and have that on hold as we are going into another lockdown. Books have kept me sane, at least I think so.

  3. @DOUGLAS ABBOTT he hasn’t published a new book this year, but The Coffinmaker’s Garden, the third book in the Ash Henderson series will be released next January.

  4. HI HAS STUART MACBRIDE PUBLISHT A NEW BOOK THIS YEAR

  5. I came across the Stuart MacBride novels by accident when I was browsing through books in a secondhand store. I wasn’t actually looking for anything to read but I was compelled to pick up ‘A Dark so Deadly’. Why? I have no idea as I have always preferred Historical books.

    On reading the first few lines I realized it was set in the north of Scotland. I was born a Geordie although I have spent most of my life in Australia, it immediately gripped my imagination and so I bought it for the hefty sum of two dollars.

    Since then I have read every book I could get my hands on from our local Library. Unfortunately I could not get them in any order so I treated each novel separately.

    I have almost run out of your books to read and cannot wait for your next book to hit the shelves.

  6. Boy what a job to find the list of Stuart MacBride’s books. Couldn’t find it on his own site, the BOOK icon took you to one or two books available to buy but not a list of all books written by him. Still I love his novels and hope that there will be a follow on for ‘In The Cold Dark Ground’.

  7. That’s fabulous!!! Just love Laz and Roberta . Best crime fiction I have read for ages and I really Must visit Aberdeen when I am next in the UK – preferably in the summer. Thanks for such great books!!!

    1. I’m not sure yet, but I know that the author signed a 3 book contract with Harper Collins, out of which 2 will be Logan McRae and one either standalone or part of Ash Henderson, we’ll see. So I’m thinking either 2017 or 2018 we’ll have the next Logan McRae book (here’s hoping for next year).

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