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  • Published: 28 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405917094
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $24.99

Dead Men's Bones

Inspector McLean 4




A family lies slaughtered in an isolated house in North East Fife . . .

Morag Weatherly and her two young daughters have been shot by husband Andrew, an influential politician, before he turned the gun on himself.

But what would cause a rich, successful man to snap so suddenly?

For Inspector Tony McLean, this apparently simple but high-profile case leads him into a world of power and privilege. And the deeper he digs, the more he realises he's being manipulated by shadowy factions.

Under pressure to wrap up the case, McLean instead seeks to uncover layers of truth - putting the lives of everyone he cares about at risk . . .

  • Published: 28 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405917094
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

James Oswald

James Oswald is the author of the Detective Inspector McLean series of crime novels. Currently there are two available, Natural Causes and The Book of Souls. He has also written an epic fantasy series, The Ballad of Sir Benfroin (under the name J D Oswald) 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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Praise for 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