Prayer for the Dead by James Oswald, New in Bookstores during February 2017

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during February 2017 is …

Prayer for the Dead by James Oswald, an Anthony McLean Mystery (5th in series)

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books

 

Detective Inspector Tony McLean is on the case when the search for a missing journalist uncovers the scene of a carefully staged murder. In a sealed chamber, deep in the heart of Gilmerton Cove, a mysterious network of caves and passages sprawling beneath Edinburgh, the body is discovered in a seemingly macabre ritual of purification. But McLean knew the dead man and can't shake off the suspicion that there is far more to this case than meets the eye.

For one thing, the baffling lack of forensics at the crime scene seems impossible. But that's just the first in a series of revelations about this case that seems beyond belief. Teamed with the most unlikely and unwelcome of allies, McLean must track down a killer — driven by the darkest compulsions and who will answer only to a higher power — until it's his own blood on the altar.

— Prayer for the Dead by James Oswald

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for February 2017. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of February 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.