Name Stuart MacBride Nationality Scottish Role Writer | Spouse Fiona MacBride Notable works Logan McRae series | |
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Nominations Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel Books Cold Granite, Dying Light, Broken Skin, Flesh house, A Song for the Dying Similar People Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, R D Wingfield | ||
030 - Stuart MacBride
Stuart MacBride is a Scottish writer, most famous for his crime thrillers set in the "Granite City" of Aberdeen and featuring Detective Sergeant Logan McRae.
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Biography
Stuart MacBride was born 27 February 1969 in Dumbarton, Scotland and raised in Aberdeen. His careers include scrubbing toilets offshore, graphic design, web design and IT/computer programming. He studied architecture at Heriot-Watt University.
MacBride's publishing deal was secured with the writing of Halfhead, however the publishers were more interested in Cold Granite, concerning DS Logan McRae. He was signed on a three-book Logan deal, which was further extended to six books. In 2009 he signed another deal, allowing him to write two more Logan books, and two standalone novels, the first of which is due after the sixth instalment of the Logan McRae series. In an interview for the Alibi television channel, MacBride indicated he considered R. D. Wingfield a "literary inspiration".
He now lives in north-east Scotland with his wife, Fiona and their cat Grendel. He is reputed to be a passionate potato grower, but claims to have a "vegetable patch full of weeds".