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And the Corpse Wore Tartan

by Stuart MacBride

A wedding, a storm and a locked-in murder mystery

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    Sunday Times bestselling author

    The metadata describes Stuart MacBride as a Sunday Times bestselling author of the Logan McRae series.

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A wedding, a storm and a locked-in murder mystery

At a wedding gathering in a remote Highland hotel, a storm cuts off the valley just as the bride’s father is found dead in the lobby. Detective Sergeant Roberta Steel takes charge of the investigation, though the description sets her against both a severe hangover and a small, unlikely police team. With no witnesses and the wedding guests all under suspicion, the setup brings together an isolated setting, a contained suspect group and a detective working under distinctly awkward conditions. The mystery’s central question is who killed the father of the bride—and whether Steel can solve it before she runs out of time.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy crime mysteries centered on a contained group of suspects.
  • Readers interested in detective-led investigations in isolated settings.
  • Readers seeking a mystery with a wedding gathering and a Highland hotel backdrop.

Themes

Murder investigationIsolationSuspicion within a wedding partyDetective work under pressure

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Book overview

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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