And the Corpse Wore Tartan

And the Corpse Wore Tartan

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by Stuart MacBride

DS Roberta Steel #2

published February 2026

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The first book in the new series by Stuart MacBride introduces Detective Sergeant Roberta Steel who crashes a party where a murder takes place. And she is the best person to untangle the threads and find the killer in the locked room whodunit.

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.