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| Cold Granite | 
 enlarge | Author: Stuart Macbride
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 812
Media: Paperback
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.7
ISBN: 0007193149
EAN: 9780007193141
ASIN: 0007193149
Publication Date: January 16, 2006
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Great Debut October 1, 2008
I'm a keen reader of Richard Montanari, and decided to try Stuart McBride based on an Amazon.co.uk recommendation. I wasn't disappointed. Cold Granite is a gripping story that I found difficult to put down. It may not suit everyone as the story does involve child murders - but it is fictional.
I've now started reading Dying Light, and have Broken Skin waiting for me.
Good book.
Very good read! September 26, 2008
This is the first book I have read by Stuart MacBride - I decided to give Cold Granite a go and am very glad I did.
The Author's style of writing is easy to read and very down to earth. I didn't really find any funny humour in the book as others have commented about - perhaps I am missing something?! The book has several plot lines going on which do relate to each other, how they actually link to each other becomes clearer the more you read. There is some disturbing subject matter in the book and some areas a bit gory so if you don't like this sort of thing, you have been warned.
I really enjoyed this book and am looking forward to reading the author's second book Dying Light.
 Five Star Writer September 13, 2008
Stuart Macbride,is a name to remember,when it comes down to good books. His first one had me up all night,I could not put it down. I think he could re-write the Yellow Pages,if it came to it. If it's crime your after,it would be a crime,not to read,Macbride.
 Quite awful August 26, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Let's get one thing right from the start: Macbride is no Rankin, no matter what you may read elsewhere. Whereas Rankin populates his world with complex, believable characters Macbride opts for tired, shallow cliche and toe-curlingly bad descriptions. He's also lazy, repeating the same descriptions over and over throughout the book, sometimes verbatim. That's either just poor writing or very sloppy editing.
I have no problems with the fact that the plotline is nasty and brutish - after all this is a serial-killer novel! However, Macbride seems to think that the more obscene and graphic he can be the more 'real' it is. Not so. Much of the obscenity does nothing to help the story. It's just there to elicit a 'yuck' reaction and ultimatly it bores and irritates.
What humour? I couldn't find any. Macbride's crass attempts at generating a laugh come across as forced, unsubtle and just not funny. He probably thinks he's being ever so edgy by contrasting some piece of vile description with a supposedly humurous comic counterpoint, but it's the equivalent of schoolboys pointing at a squashed cat in the road and giggling - puerile.
So, bad characterisation, gratuitous obscenity and a plot as predicitable as summer rain. I don't feel a need to read anything else he's done.
Could not put this book down August 17, 2008
I loved this book, gory, and yet funny in places, the humour is a bit dark but still i could not put this book down. I have never been to Aberdeen but the descriptions of places make me want to go.
Logan is a very beleivable character (along with others) who i could really picture. The only character i had a problem with is Miller, i thinks he was a bit predictable and you could see the link between him and Isobel a mile off. The budding romance between Logan and Watson should have developed a bit more.
On the whole a very good read, can't wait to read more from Mr McBride.
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