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  • Published: 27 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405918053
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

The Hangman's Song

Inspector McLean 3





The third in the phenomenally successful Inspector McLean series, set in Edinburgh

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Hangman's Song, the third in the phenomenally successful Inspector McLean series by James Oswald's. Read by the actor Ian Hanmore.

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: 27 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405918053
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

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.

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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