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  • Published: 12 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9781405917124
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

Prayer for the Dead

Inspector McLean 5




The fifth title in the bestselling Inspector McLean series from James Oswald, for the first time in hardback

A body is found at the scene of a carefully staged murder. In a sealed chamber deep in the heart of Gilmerton Cove the victim has undergone a macabre ritual of purification.

Inspector Tony McLean knew the dead man, and can't shake the suspicion that there is more to this case thanmeets the eye. The lack of forensics at the crime scene is not the only thing that McLean will find beyond belief.

Teamed with the most unlikely and unwelcome of allies, McLean must track down a killer with the darkest compulsions, who answers only to a higher power.

  • Published: 12 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9781405917124
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

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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