Birthdays for the Dead - Softcover

MacBride, Stuart

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5,565 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000734418X ISBN 13: 9780007344185

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2012

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The Number One bestselling crime thriller from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. A bloody, brilliant and brutal story of murder, kidnap and revenge.

Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret...

Five years ago his daughter, Rebecca, went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: homemade, with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front – Rebecca, strapped to a chair, gagged and terrified. Every year another card: each one worse than the last.

The tabloids call him ‘The Birthday Boy’. He’s been snatching girls for twelve years, always in the run-up to their thirteenth birthday, sending the families his homemade cards showing their daughters being slowly tortured to death.

But Ash hasn’t told anyone about Rebecca’s birthday cards – they all think she’s just run away from home – because if anyone finds out, he’ll be taken off the investigation. And he’s sacrificed too much to give up before his daughter’s killer gets what he deserves...

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Paperback. Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 496 Publisher: HarperCollins The gritty new standalone crime novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Shatter the Bones and Dark Blood Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret! Five years ago his daughter. Rebecca. went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: homemade. with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front - Rebecca. strapped to a chair. gagged and terrified. Every year another card: each one worse than the last. The tabloids call him The Birthday Boy. He's been snatching girls for twelve years. always in the run-up to their thirteenth birthday. sending the families his homemade cards showing their daughters being slowly tortured to death. But Ash hasn 't told anyone about Rebecca's birthday cards - they all think she's just run away from home - because if anyone finds out. he'll b...

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Praise for Birthdays for the Dead:

‘MacBride is a damned fine writer – no one does dark and gritty like him’ Peter James

‘The master of murderous mayhem is back to his best with a belter of a book ... a page-turner’ The Sun

Praise for Stuart MacBride:

‘Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order’ Mark Billingham

‘Ferocious and funny, this is Tartan Noir at its best’ Val McDermid

‘Stuart MacBride’s thrillers just keep getting better’ Express

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