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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...
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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
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781035098316
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 October 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pan Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Stuart MacBride is the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of the Logan McRae and Ash Henderson novels. He has also published standalones, novellas, short stories, and a slightly twisted children's picture book for slightly twisted children. Stuart lives in the north-east of Scotland with his wife Fiona, their cats Gherkin, Onion, and Beetroot, some hens, some horses, and an impressive collection of assorted weeds.
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