We are pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series mysteries: Natural Causes by James Oswald and introducing Anthony McLean.
What we know about the character: Anthony McLean is a Detective Inspector in Edinburgh (Scotland).
For more information about his first case, see a synopsis of the book, below.
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Natural Causes by James Oswald
Series: An Anthony McLean Mystery
Publisher: Mariner Books
Format(s): Trade Paperback, eBook
First published in the UK in May 2013 and short-listed for the CWA New Blood (Debut) Dagger Award, the ebook for this title was released in the US in October 2013. This is its first appearance in print in the US.
A young girl's mutilated body is discovered in a room that has lain sealed for the last sixty years. Her remains are carefully arranged in what seems to have been a macabre ritual.
For newly appointed Edinburgh Detective Inspector Tony McLean, this baffling cold case ought to be a low priority, but he is haunted by the young victim and 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, and which leave Edinburgh's police at a loss.
McLean is convinced that these deaths are somehow connected to the terrible ceremonial killing of the girl, all those years ago. It is an irrational theory. And one that will lead McLean closer to the heart of a terrifying and ancient evil …
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