The Hangman's Song

by James Oswald

Overview

An Edinburgh detective suspects a rash of apparent suicides is something more sinister in this Scottish mystery thriller by the author of Book of Souls.
 
The body of a man is found hanging in an empty house. To the Edinburgh police force, this is a simple suicide case. But something about the scene strikes Detective Inspector Tony McLean as being off. Days later another body is found hanging from an identical rope, with a noose tied in the identical way. McLean is convinced that these people are either being murdered or somehow coerced into taking their own lives. Then a third body is found. 
 
Under pressure from his superiors to wrap the case up quickly and neatly, McLean must also deal with the fallout of his last big investigation—not to mention the difficult trials of his personal life. But the deeper McLean digs, the more he comes to believe that something evil is stalking Edinburgh’s streets. He just hopes he can stop it before someone else succumbs to the hangman’s song.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544317895
Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date:	06/11/2020
Series:	The Detective Inspector McLean Novels , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	498
Sales rank:	330,933
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

James Oswald is the author of the Detective Inspector McLean series of crime novels. The first two books, Natural Causes and The Book of Souls, are also available as paperbacks and ebooks. He has also written an epic fantasy series, as well as comic scripts and short stories. In his spare time, Oswald runs a 350-acre livestock farm in North East Fife, Scotland, where he raises pedigree Highland Cattle and New Zealand Romney Sheep.