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As with the rest of the series, this is not a "cosy mystery" - the violence is at times disturbing, although I don't feel it was gratuitous, in light of the grittiness of the storylines. The themes of child murder and sexual abuse will mean this book won't be suitable for all readers. Steel's wife and birth mother to their two children. She is first heard of in "Dying Light" when Steel is talking to her on the phone. a b c d Devine, Cate (23 January 2016). "Crime writer Stuart MacBride on Logan McCrae, his time with Macduff B Division and misogyny". Oxford Mail . Retrieved 9 November 2018.
The character development is written well and sets up the series. The story is fairly complex and left me wondering & trying to guess whats happenes next. At times, I guessed correctly but still enjoyed how the author led me there. The character interaction and dialog has a wide range of emotions. Cold Granite (Logan McRae, book 1) by Stuart MacBride". www.fantasticfiction.com . Retrieved 12 November 2018. In the second book, " Dying Light", McRae is assigned to Detective Inspector Steel's "Screw-up Squad" [13] after a botched raid that McRae organised, left one of his colleagues in a coma. [14] [15] Steel is overtly lesbian and obsessed with porn and other people's sex lives. [16] She has an abrasive nature and has been described by some as being "wonderfully scabrous". [17] In the books, she is always noted for her odd hairstyles and for fiddling constantly with her underwear. Louise Fairbairn, writing in The Scotsman, describes her as "The human tornado with a selection of ill-fitting bras...", [12] and as one MacBride's "most beloved creations". [18] It has been noted that Steel is more graphically described than McRae is and that she has "off-grey fillings and a yellow tongue”, exposes “pale, hairy shins” when her trouser legs ride up, drinks whisky like there's no tomorrow and stuffs her face with sausage rolls. She's constantly digging into her cleavage to re-arrange her bra, which she swears is her girlfriend's, not hers." [10] Similarly, Sue Arnold, writing in The Guardian said of DI Steel that she was "[a] hard-drinking, chain-smoking, foul-mouthed but lovable lesbian...". [9] Absolute proof of the truth of the Peter Principle that organizations manage careers so that everyone "rises to the level of their incompetence."The secondary characters are well-developed whether it is McRae's tetchy boss with his penchant for charity pantomimes or the smarmy journalist with his loathsome attitude or the feisty and capable WPC assigned to keep McRae out of trouble.
McRae has been described as the "last bastion of sanity in the manic Aberdeen police department; [he is] surrounded by squabbling, heavy drinking, cursing and frequently incompetent fellow officers...." [6] I admired DS McRae’s tenacity and perceptiveness under extremely tough conditions - it was he who made clever and unexpected links between bits of information and evidence, thus solving some cases that seems insoluble.Fiction Book Review: Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride". publishersweekly.com . Retrieved 12 November 2018. In early stories always seen with green hair although in "Shatter the Bones" in a lime shade until the short story 22 Dead Little Bodies when he is suited and overpays when buying McRae's flat. James, Russell (2008). Great British fictional detectives. Barnsley: Pen & Sword. p.135. ISBN 9781844680269. Wee Hamish Mowat's chief enforcer; he and McRae regularly come to blows, especially in events of In the Cold Dark Ground when Wee Hamish dies and Reuben assumes control of the enterprise forcing McRae to get tough.
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