Festival season. The streets are filled to bursting with tourists, and Edinburgh is gripped by a stifling heatwave. Not the best time for one of the most violent murders the city has witnessed in years.The victim of the murder cannot be identified; its brutal nature of the shocking both the public and the police. What could possibly have inflicted such gruesome injuries? Was it a wild animal on the loose, or the beginning of some horrific gang warfare?Anoth...

From one of the UK's biggest crime writers - the man brought you the bestselling Inspector McLean novels - comes a phenomenal new series guaranteed to have your heart in your mouth.Undercover ops are always dangerous, but DC Constance Fairchild never expected things to go this wrong.Returning to their base of operations, an anonymous office in a shabby neighbourhood, she finds the bloodied body of her boss, and friend, DI Pete Copperthwaite. He's been execu...

“The new Ian Rankin.” —SUNDAY TELEGRAPHThe Hangman’s Song is the thrilling third novel in James Oswald’s Inspector McLean series, set in Edinburgh.A young man is found hanging by a rope in his Edinburgh home. A simple, sad suicide, yet Detective Inspector Tony McLean is puzzled by the curious suicide note. A second hanged man and another strange note hint at a sinister pattern.Investigating a brutal prostitution an...

For fans of Ian Rankin, Stuart MacBride and Peter James, the first novel in a gripping new Edinburgh-based crime series that has already sold more than half a million copies.The mutilated body of a young girl is discovered in a sealed room. Her remains were carefully arranged in a cruel and macabre ritual that appears to have taken place more than sixty years ago. For Tony McLean, a newly appointed detective inspector in the Edinburgh police, this baffling cold cas...

For fans of Ian Rankin, Stuart MacBride and Peter James, the second novel in a gripping new Edinburgh-based crime series that has already sold more than half a million copies.Every year for ten years, a different 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. On that occasion, the Christmas Killer made a ...

When Balwen's last sits on the stolen throne,And kitling sleeps beside the babe ne'er born,When darkness stills the forest birds at noon,In blood and fire Gwlad shall rise anew.The Prophecies of Mad Goronwy----Dreamwalker is the first spellbinding novel in the new epic fantasy series from J. D. Oswald - The Ballad of Sir Benfro.In a small village, miles from the great cities of the Twin Kingdoms, a young boy call...

An unreckoned jewel is a terrible thing. Quite apart from the tragedy of any dragon dying alone and so far from others of his kind that no healer can be informed of his demise, a dragon’s jewel not cleansed and set by the living flame will slowly melt away as its essence leaches back into the grym. Jewels thus left still hunger for experience, but with time the good nature of the dragon is gone; only his base desires are left, and with them a desperate, mad craving for survival. Unreck...

**The gripping new thriller in the Sunday Times-bestselling phenomenon that is the Inspector McLean series, from one of Scotland's most celebrated crime writersA macabre ancient artefact. An innovative biotech company connected to the highest levels of government. And the trail of bloodshed in its wake.**Detective Chief Inspector Tony McLean is called to investigate a break-in at Drake BioTech, a trendsetting Edinburgh start-up. It's well below McLean's pay grade, but given...

The third book in the epic fantasy series The Ballad of Sir Benfro.----Although they have a reputation for terrorising remote settlements and killing people for sport, there is no reliable documented evidence of dragons ever having caused anyone intentional harm. Mander Keece’s fairy tales tell of ferocious battles fought between dragons, and of unfortunate peasant farmers caught up in the mêlée, but it is only in the later, more derivative works of fiction that dragons...

The wages of sin is death.The partial collapse of a disused Edinburgh church reveals a dead body in the rubble, his head badly smashed by falling masonry. Soon identified as an old ex-con - Kenny Morgan - his death is put down to a heart attack and deemed non-suspicious.Tony McLean is approached by a notorious crime lord who suggests the police should be looking into Morgan's death more closely. Despite struggling with his recent retirement, he is reluctant...

They'll bury the truth, one body at a time...When a police raid in Edinburgh goes horribly wrong, the only silver lining for Inspector Tony McLean is a discovery that could lead to a long-lost girl from his early days on the beat.Haunted by the mystery of what happened to her, McLean begins to dig into a case he thought long buried.But the shadows of the past are soon eclipsed by crimes in the present as a series of strange and gruesome deaths shock...

The Dead Demand VengeanceThe gripping new crime thriller in the highly acclaimed Inspector McLean seriesA truck driver loses control in central Edinburgh, ploughing into a crowded bus stop and spilling his vehicle's toxic load. The consequences are devastating.DI Tony McLean witnesses the carnage. Taking control of the investigation, he soon realises there is much that is deeply amiss - and everyone involved seems to have something ...