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FICTION THE MISSING AND THE DEAD By Stuart MacBride HARPER COLLINS Pounds 16.99
Stuart MacBride's ninth Logan McRae novel sees the laconic police sergeant banished to the wilds of rural Aberdeenshire in what is termed a "development opportunity". In fact, he has blotted his copy book one too many times in Aberdeen, and his senior officers have decided that a spell in the sticks will teach him a lesson. Shoplifters, vandals, and rounding up the occasional escaped farm animal make up the day-to-day routine of pastoral policing. Away from work, McRae keeps himself busy renovating the rundown Sergeant's Hoose next to the police station, settling in for...