Natural Causes

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Natural Causes is the first novel from James Oswald in the Detective Inspector Mc Lean series. A young girl's mutilated body is discovered in a sealed room. Her remains are carefully arranged in what seems to have been a cruel & macabre ritual which appears to have taken place over 60 years ago. For newly appointed Edinburgh Detective Inspector Tony Mc Lean this baffling cold case ought to be a low priority
- but he is haunted by the young victim & her grisly death. Meanwhile the city is horrified by a series of bloody killings. Deaths for which there appears to be neither rhyme nor reason & which leave Edinburgh's police at a loss. Mc Lean is convinced that these deaths are somehow connected to the terrible ceremonial killing of the girl all those years ago. It is an irrational almost supernatural theory. & one which will lead Mc Lean closer to the heart of a terrifying & ancient evil... James Oswald's Detective Inspector Mc Lean appears here for the first time. Natural Causes is the opening to an electrifying new series. Subsequent titles include The Book of Souls & 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."