A young girl's mutilated body is discovered in a room that has lain sealed for the last sixty years. Her remains are carefully arranged in what seems to have been a macabre ritual. For newly appointed Edinburgh Detective Inspector Tony McLean, this baffling cold case ought to be a low priority, but he is haunted by the young victim and her grisly death. Meanwhile, the city is horrified by a series of bloody killings—deaths for which there appears to be neither rhyme nor reason, and which leave Edinburgh's police at a loss. McLean is convinced that these deaths are somehow connected to the terrible ceremonial killing of the girl, all those years ago. It is an irrational theory. And one that will lead McLean closer to the heart of a terrifying and ancient evil . . . Natural Causes is a chilling and exciting start to a brand new series of mysteries: The Detective Inspector MacLean novels.

Natural Causes (Detective Inspector MacLean) (Detective Inspector MacLean, 1)

Literature & Fiction

OSWALD, JAMES

Genre Fiction

Mariner Books

Each year for ten years, a young woman’s body was found in Edinburgh at Christmastime: naked, throat slit, body washed clean. The final victim, Kirsty Summers, was Detective Constable Tony McLean's fiancée. But the Christmas Killer made a mistake, and McLean put an end to the brutal killing spree. It’s now twelve years later. A fellow prisoner has just murdered the incarcerated Christmas Killer. But with the arrival of the festive season comes a body. A young woman: naked, washed, her throat cut. Is this a copycat killer? Was the wrong man behind bars all this time? Or is there a more frightening explanation? McLean must revisit the most disturbing case of his life and discover what he missed before the killer strikes again . . .

The Book of Souls (Detective Inspector MacLean, 2)

Harper Paperbacks

[headline] A DETECTIVE INSPECTOR McLEAN NOVEL “Crime fiction’s next big thing . . . Combines old-fashioned sleuthing with supernatural intuition.” — Sunday Telegraph 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. But something about the scene strikes Detective Inspector Tony McLean as 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 suicide. 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 and complications in his personal life. But the deeper he digs, the more he comes to believe that something dark and sinister is stalking Edinburgh’s streets. Will he be able to stop it before someone else succumbs to the hangman’s song? “Engrossing.” — Publishers Weekly [AU PHOTO] JAMES OSWALD is the author of the Detective Inspector McLean series of crime novels. A crime writer by night, during the day he runs a 350-acre livestock farm in North East Fife, Scotland, where he raises Highland cattle and sheep.

The Hangman's Song (Detective Inspector MacLean) (Detective Inspector MacLean, 3)

The search for a missing journalist is called off as a body is found at the scene of a carefully staged murder. In a sealed chamber, deep in the heart of Gilmerton Cove, a mysterious network of caves and passages sprawling beneath Edinburgh, the victim has undergone a macabre ritual of purification. Inspector Tony McLean knew the dead man, and can't shake off the suspicion that there is far more to this case than meets the eye. The baffling lack of forensics at the crime scene seems impossible. But it is not the only thing about this case that McLean will find beyond belief. Teamed with the most unlikely and unwelcome of allies, he must track down a killer driven by the darkest compulsions, who will answer only to a higher power...'Are you ready for the mysteries to be revealed?

Prayer for the Dead: Inspector McLean 5

Penguin

Prayer for the Dead Ome

Michael, Joseph

James Oswald, a prominent Scottish composer, music publisher and teacher, composed and published 12 divertimentos in London around 1759 for the popular wire-strung cittern known then as the guittar. The body of work was intended to help meet the demand for easy to intermediate solo guittar music. Arranged here for the modern mandolin in both standard notation and tablature, each piece includes three or four short movements full of pleasant melodies and interesting ideas. Whereas the original compositions were published in the key native to the guittar tuning (an open C major chord), this book offers the music in a variety of mandolin-friendly keys. The transpositions adhere to Oswald's original intent that the music be easy to play and pleasant to hear. While suitable for teaching and performance these divertimentos are, above all, fun and satisfying to study and play.

12 Divertimentos for Solo Mandolin

Arts & Photography

Music

Mel Bay Publications,Inc.

Exit Wounds: Nineteen Tales of Mystery from the Modern Masters of Crime

FOWLER, CHRISTOPHER

LANSDALE, Joe R.

Benedict, A.K.

Hilary, Sarah

Jensen, Louise

LEHANE, DENNIS

Gray, Alex

Finch, Paul

Broadribb, Steph

KOONTZ, DEAN

Cummins, Fiona

Child,Lee

Waites, Martyn

Mcdermid. Val.

Connolly, John.

Various, Authors

Billingham,Mark

DEAVER,JEFFERY

Short Stories & Anthologies

Blackstone Publishing

An appeal to common sense in behalf of religion. Volume 2 of 2

History

World

Gale ECCO, Print Editions

An appeal to common sense in behalf of religion. Volume 1 of 2

Letters concerning the present state of the Church of Scotland, and the consequent danger to religion and learning, from the arbitrary and unconstitutional exercise of the law of patronage.

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