Now We Are Dead

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Now We Are Dead
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Author Stuart MacBride
LanguageEnglish
Series Logan 'Lazarus' McRae
GenreCrime fiction
Set inAberdeen
PublisherHarperCollins
Published in English
November 2017
Pages380
ISBN 978-0-00-825708-8
Preceded by In the Cold Dark Ground  
Followed by The Blood Road  

Now We Are Dead is a spinoff novel from the bestselling Logan McRae series by Stuart MacBride. The novel features some of the usual characters from the series but McRae's character appears in only two scenes with the story revolving around Roberta Steel. The novel has been described as being "lighter" and "more fun than the violence and misery of MacBride's blacker thrillers". [1]

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Plot

Detective Sergeant Roberta Steel has been recently demoted from detective chief inspector on account of her planting evidence of child abuse on the computer of a suspected rapist (Jack Wallace), and as a result, he was freed from his sentence. [2] The story involves Steel and Detective Constable 'Tufty' Quirrel tackling shoplifting crimes in Aberdeen whilst she is still stalking Wallace and accusing him of a series of rapes. Towards the end of the novel, it is revealed that Wallace was guilty of some of the rapes as he was working in a team of three. [3] [4]

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  2. ↑ Fairbairn, Louise (30 November 2017). "Book review: Now We Are Dead, by Stuart MacBride". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
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