Birthdays for the Dead

The Number One bestselling crime thriller from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. A bloody, brilliant and brutal story of murder, kidnap and revenge.Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret¿Five years ago his daughter, Rebecca, went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: homemade, with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front ¿ Rebecca, strapped to a chair, gagged and terrified. Every year another card: each one worse than the last.The tabloids call him `The Birthday Boy¿. He¿s been snatching girls for twelve years, always in the run-up to their thirteenth birthday, sending the families his homemade cards showing their daughters being slowly tortured to death.But Ash hasn¿t told anyone about Rebecca¿s birthday cards ¿ they all think she¿s just run away from home ¿ because if anyone finds out, he¿ll be taken off the investigation. And he¿s sacrificed too much to give up before his daughter¿s killer gets what he deserves¿