Dead mens bones is the fourth novel in james oswalds phenomenal inspector mclean series set in edinburgh and is already a sunday times top five bestseller. 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 realizes hes 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 . . the first three titles in the bestselling inspector mclean series - natural causes the book of souls and the hangmans song are all available as penguin paperbacks and ebooks. Fans of ian rankin and stuart macbride will love james oswalds writing. Praise for the james oswald and the inspector mclean series: a star of scotlands burgeoning crime fiction scene daily record crime fictions 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 fifty shades of hay the times oswald is among the leaders in the new batch of excellent scottish crime writers daily mail the new ian rankin daily record the hallmarks of val mcdermid or ian rankin: its dark violent noirish the herald a good read the times an excellent start to what promises to be a fine series guardian classy occasionally brutal and with the odd suggestion of the supernatural this will doubtless be another deserved hit.
