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Publisher Harper Collins Media type Print Originally published 2016 Preceded by The Missing and the Dead Genre Detective fiction | 4.4/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 2016 Pages 518 Page count 518 Country Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Series Detective Sergeant Logan 'Lazarus' McRae Similar Stuart MacBride books, Detective fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In the Cold Dark Ground is the tenth instalment in the bestselling Detective Sergeant McRae series of crime novels set in Aberdeenshire from Stuart MacBride.
Plot
Sergeant Logan McRae is still overseeing a patch of north east Aberdeenshire as a 'Development Opportunity'. He does, however, keep finding bodies and one such find brings the MIT (Major Investigation Team) screaming up to rural Aberdeenshire from Aberdeen City. This team is headed up by McRae's old boss, Detective Chief Inspector Roberta Steel.
She wants him in the investigation; he doesn't want to join. Unfortunately, he is drafted in anyway and has to cope with a very critical Detective Superintendent (who seems to love to belittle McRae), a secondment to Professional Standards so he can spy on DCI Steel, Wee Hamish Mowat (the ganglord of Aberdeen) dying and making Logan his heir (which means fighting off Reuben, the ganglords' enforcer) and switching off his girlfriend's life support system.
Somewhere in between all this, McRae is supposed to negotiate the office politics, save himself, save DCI Steel, bury two people and solve the case.