Birthdays for the Dead

This is a relentlessly dark book featuring a very flawed protagonist. A serial killer is stalking twelve-year-old girls in Scotland. He abducts the children a few days before their thirteenth birthdays, then tortures them over a period of days, killing them on their birthdays. Every year thereafter,......more

DC Ash Henderson and the team in Oldcastle, Scotland are searching for the‘Birthday Boy’, a serial killer who has been snatching girls for twelve years just before their 13th birthday. However, Ash has a very personal reason for wanting to apprehend the killer. This is definitely not for the faint h......more

This book is a stripped down muscle car, roaring with unbridled horsepower, racing like the literary equivalent of Steve McQueen in BULLITT through dark territory, pedal to the metal without headlights, questionable brakes and Steve himself at the wheel, taking the story through it's paces, hitting......more

Ahhhh, Stuart. You have to give the reader something to hold on to, and your dark-to-laughs ratio has to be even. If you kill your protagonist's older daughter, you have to leave the other one alone. Got about a third through and couldn't keep going. In saying this, it is with a heavy heart because......more

Swedish review Media kallar honom "Födelsedagsfiraren" för att han kidnappar flickor precis innan de ska fylla tretton år och sedan skickar han ett födelsdagskort till deras familjer som visar hur han långsamt torterar dem till döds. Varje år får de ett nytt kort. För fem år sedan försvann kriminalin......more