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Born in Dumbarton but raised in Aberdeen, Stuart opted to make his protagonist in chief Logan McRae, an officer with the old Grampian Police force.
McRae made his first appearance in Cold Granite in 2005. The ninth book in the series, The Missing and the Dead, was published in January.
For Stuart, there was never any chance of a return to his west coast roots when he started writing crime fiction.
He said: "Let's face it, you can't throw a brick in Edinburgh or Glasgow without killing at least half a dozen fictional detectives.
"When I started, as far as Aberdeen was concerned, nobody was writing...