Stuart MacBride is the author of the Logan McRae series of novels and the winner of the Crime Writers’ Association’s Dagger in the Library for his body of work. His first novel, Cold Granite, won the Barry Award and was shortlisted for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel, and his second, Dying Light, was shortlisted for the Barry Award. Both of them were also shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. MacBride, a major bestseller in the United Kingdom, lives in Aberdeen, Scotland, with his wife.