As February's leaden skies cast a grey pall over the streets of Aberdeen, DS Logan McRae is assigned an unsavoury dead-end case - an unidentified body dumped outside a hospital by an unidentified motorist, showing signs of brutal S&M activity.

?You can?t be an eyewitness if I cut out your eyes? ?Someone?s preying on Aberdeen?s growing Polish population. The pattern is always the same: men abandoned on building sites, barely alive, their eyes gouged out and the sockets burned. With the victims too scared to talk, and the only witness a paedophile who?s on the run, Grampian Police is getting nowhere fast. The attacks are brutal, they keep on happening, and soon DS Logan McRae will have to...

Everyone deserves a second chance. Richard Knox has served his time, so why shouldn?t he be allowed to live wherever he wants? Yes, in the past he was a violent rapist, but he?s seen the error of his ways. Found God. Wants to leave his dark past in Newcastle behind him and make a new start. Or so he says. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn?t exactly thrilled to be part of the team helping Knox settle into his new Aberdeen home. He?s even less thrilled...

No suspects. No clues. No rest for the wicked. 'You will raise money for the safe return of Alison and Jenny McGregor. If you raise enough money within fourteen days they will be released. If not, Jenny will be killed. 'Alison and Jenny McGregor - Aberdeen's own mother-daughter singing sensation - are through to the semi-finals of TV smash-hit Britain's Next Big Star. They're in all the gossip magazines, they've got millions of YouTube hits, everyone...

A collection of four short stories featuring Logan McRae and Roberta Steel, from the bestselling author Stuart MacBride.

Sergeant Logan McRae is trouble. His missing-persons investigation has just turned up a body in the woods - naked, hands tied behind its back, and a bin bag duct-taped over its head. The Major Investigation Team charges up from Aberdeen, under the beady eye of Logan's ex-boss Detective Chief Inspector Steel. And, as usual, she wants him to do her j