Dead Men's Bones

There’s a timely feel to this macabre police procedural, which also has shade of the supernatural. After a top politician shoots his family, Detective Tony McLean uncovers an establishment sex-abuse ring, operated at a mental hospital. Creepy, gritty and gruesome * Sunday Mirror *
The hallmarks of Val McDermid or Ian Rankin: it’s dark, violent, noirish * The Herald *
Crime fiction’s next big thing * The Sunday Telegraph *
Literary sensation … James’ overnight success has drawn comparisons with the meteoric rise of E L James and her Fifty Shades of Grey series * Daily Mail *
Oswald is among the leaders in the new batch of excellent Scottish crime writers * Daily Mail *
Fifty Shades of Hay * The Times *

James Oswald is the author of the Inspector McLean series of crime novels. The first seven, Natural Causes, The Book of Souls, The Hangman’s Song, Dead Men’s Bones, Prayer for the Dead, The Damage Done and Written in Bones are available as Penguin paperbacks and ebooks. He has also written an epic fantasy series, The Ballad of Sir Benfro, which is published by Penguin, as well as comic scripts and short stories. In his spare time he runs a 350-acre livestock farm in north-east Fife, where he raises pedigree Highland Cattle and New Zealand Romney sheep.

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