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A Stephanie McBride novel
She doesn’t sleep much. Broken glass in the mirror. Voices from cases gone cold. Adelaide at 3 a.m. whispering through the walls. Stephanie McBride is no hard-boiled cliché—she’s a detective held together by scar tissue, stubbornness, and the faint hope that trying might still matter.
SCAR is the latest in the ongoing crime series about Stephanie McBride. It opens with a bathroom mirror fractured into seven shards—each one holding a memory of a case, a partner, or a failure. From there, Stephanie is drawn into a digital underworld where missing teenagers, cult-style recruitment, and law enforcement corruption collide.
This isn’t tidy crime fiction. It’s dark, raw, and personal. Adelaide’s streets breathe like a character. Trauma isn’t decoration here—it’s the machinery of the story.
Why SCAR matters
McBride isn’t a superhero. She’s a cop who knows the cost of caring, and keeps paying it anyway. Each chapter pulls you deeper into a world where pain is weaponised, institutions are compromised, and justice is never clean.
If you’ve ever wondered what happens to the detectives who can’t leave the case files alone, SCAR is their story.
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Where to get it
SCAR is now available on Amazon.