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James Oswald is the author of the Detective Inspector McLean series of crime novels. The first three, Natural Causes, The Book of Souls and The Hangman's Song are also available as Penguin paperbacks and ebooks. His epic fantasy series, The Ballad of Sir Benfro, is also published by Penguin. 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. http://jamesoswald.co.uk
There's a timely feel to this macabre police procedural, which also has shade of the supernatural. After a top politician shoots his family, Detective Tony McLean uncovers an establishment sex-abuse ring, operated at a mental hospital. Creepy, gritty and gruesome Sunday Mirror 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 E L James and her Fifty Shades of Grey series Daily Mail Oswald is among the leaders in the new batch of excellent Scottish crime writers Daily Mail Fifty Shades of Hay The Times
