The Hangman's Song
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  • Published: 28 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405913188
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $30.00

The Hangman's Song

Inspector McLean 3

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3 Apr 2014
Audiobook
27 Feb 2014
Paperback
28 Jul 2016
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The third in the phenomenally successful Inspector McLean series, set in Edinburgh

The body of a man is found hanging in an empty house. To the Edinburgh police force this appears to be a simple suicide case.

Days later another body is found.

The body is hanging from an identical rope and the noose has been tied using the same knot.

Then a third body is found.

As Inspector McLean digs deeper he descends into a world where the lines of reality are blurred and where the most irrational answers become the only explanations.
  • Published: 28 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405913188
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $30.00
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About the author

James Oswald

James Oswald is the author of the Detective Inspector McLean series of crime novels. Currently there are two available, Natural Causes and The Book of Souls. He has also written an epic fantasy series, The Ballad of Sir Benfroin (under the name J D Oswald) as well as comic scripts and short stories.

In his spare time he runs a 350 acre livestock farm in North East Fife, where he raises pedigree Highland Cattle and New Zealand Romney Sheep.

Also by James Oswald

Natural Causes
Dead Men's Bones
The Gathering Dark
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Written in Bones
The Obsidian Throne
The Damage Done
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Praise for The Hangman's Song

The hallmarks of Val McDermid or Ian Rankin: it's dark, violent, noirish

The Herald

Crime fiction's next big thing

The Sunday Telegraph

Literary sensation...James' overnight success has drawn comparisons with the meteoric rise of EL James and 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

Classy, occasionally brutal, and with the odd suggestion of the supernatural, this will doubtless be another deserved hit. Oswald's writing is in a class above most in this genre and McLean - his rich, idealistic and all-too-human detective - is the perfect counterpoint to Ian Rankin's cynical Inspector Rebus

Daily Express