The Violent Hour

cover image for novel The Violent Hour by James Oswald. Sunset over water, sinister birds flying in a darkening sky. In the foreground, rotten wooden piles rise out of a pebbly beech like ribs exposed from a long dead carcass.

Book Fifteen in the Inspector McLean series

Festival season. The streets are filled to bursting with tourists, and Edinburgh is gripped by a stifling heatwave. Not the best time for one of the most violent murders the city has witnessed in years.

The victim of the murder cannot be identified; its brutal nature of the shocking both the public and the police. What could possibly have inflicted such gruesome injuries? Was it a wild animal on the loose, or the beginning of some horrific gang warfare?

Another body is found on Musselburgh Beach: naked, comatose . . . but this time still alive. DI Tony McLean can’t shake the feeling that there is a connection to the killing – but there are few leads for him and the team to go by.

The police are at a loss, and the city is on edge – will the killer strike again?


ISBN

Hardback: 9781472298935
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Paperback: 978-1472298959


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