The Coffinmaker’s Garden

A Sunday Times bestseller for the w/c 11th January 2021.

A village on the edge…

As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith's home is falling into the North Sea. But the crumbling headland has revealed what he's got buried in his garden: human remains.

A house full of secrets…

With the storm still raging, it's too dangerous to retrieve the bodies and waves are devouring the evidence. Which means no one knows how many people Smith's already killed and how many more he'll kill if he can't be found and stopped.

An investigator with nothing to lose…

The media are baying for blood, the top brass are after a scapegoat, and ex-Detective Inspector Ash Henderson is done playing nice. He's got a killer to catch, and God help anyone who gets in his way.

The Coffinmaker’s Garden by Stuart MacBride demonstrates deft plotting and whipcrack dialogue, along with a strong sense of place. If you like your serial killers with lashings of dark humour, this is for you.

The Coffinmaker's Garden is brilliantly creepy, with the most cleverly conceived crime scene ever read. Stuart MacBride's legions of fans will love this – it's an unmistakable cocktail of dark violence and even darker humour.