Birthdays for the Dead Author:Stuart MacBride 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: h... more »ome-made, 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 home-made 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?« less