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The Book of Souls is James Oswald's second electrifying thriller in the Detective Inspector McLean series. Every year for ten years a young woman's body was found in Edinburgh at Christmas time: naked throat slit body washed clean. Ten years ten women. The final victim Kirsty Summers was Detective Constable Tony McLean's fiancee. But the Christmas Killer made a mistake. In a cellar under a shop McLean found a torture chamber and put an end to the brutal killing spree. Twelve years later and a fellow prisoner has just murdered the incarcerated Christmas Killer. But with the arrival of the festive season comes a body. A young woman: naked washed her throat cut. Is this a copycat killer? Was the wrong man behind bars all this time? Or is there a more sinister frightening explanation? McLean
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    The Book of Souls is James Oswald's second electrifying thriller in the Detective Inspector Mc Lean series. Every year for ten years a young woman's body was found in Edinburgh at Christmas time: naked throat slit body washed clean. Ten years ten women. The final victim Kirsty Summers was Detective Constable Tony Mc Lean's fiancee. But the Christmas Killer made a mistake. In a cellar under a shop Mc Lean found a torture chamber & put an end to the brutal killing spree. Twelve years later & a fellow prisoner has just murdered the incarcerated Christmas Killer. But with the arrival of the festive season comes a body. A young woman: naked washed her throat cut. Is this a copycat killer? Was the wrong man behind bars all this time? Or is there a more sinister frightening explanation? Mc Lean must revisit the most disturbing case of his life & discover what he missed before the killer strikes again... The Book of Souls is the second in the Detective Inspector Mclean series. The first was Natural Causes & the upcoming third will be called The Hangman's Song. Fans of Ian Rankin Peter James & Stuart Mc Bride will love James Oswald's work. Praise for James Oswald: A star of Scotland's burgeoning crime fiction scene". (Daily Record). " Crime fiction's next big thing". (The Sunday Telegraph). " Literary sensation... James' overnight success has drawn comparisons with the meteoric rise of EL James & 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 Mc Dermid or Ian Rankin: it's dark violent noirish". (The Herald). "A good read". (The Times). " An excellent start to what promises to be a fine series". (Guardian). James Oswald is the author of the Detective Inspector Mc Lean series of crime novels. The first two in the series Natural Causes & The Book of Souls are available from Penguin with the third title The Hangman's Song forthcoming for 2014. He has also written an epic fantasy series The Ballad of Sir Benfro as well as comic scripts & short stories. In his spare time James runs a 350 acre livestock farm in North East Fife where he raises pedigree Highland Cattle & New Zealand Romney Sheep."

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