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

MacBride is a masterful storyteller with a terrific eye for detail and razor-sharp wit -- Karin Slaughter, author of After that Night
MacBride is a damned fine writer -- Peter James, author of Picture You Dead
Crime fiction of the highest order -- Mark Billingham, author of The Last Dance
Stuart MacBride is an automatic must-read for me . . . always fast, hard, authentic – and different -- Lee Child, author of Killing Floor
Stuart MacBride is one of the best in the business. Always beautifully written, evocative settings and characters dripping with authenticity and a story you can’t get out of your head. Stuart delivers every single time -- Steve Cavanagh, author of Witness 8

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.