James Oswald

Books

James Oswald

Inspector McLean

15 books

Detective Chief Inspector Tony McLean, formerly of Lothian and Borders Police, now Police Scotland in Edinburgh, is the kind of policeman who gets all the weird cases. He began life as a support character in a comic script I wrote on spec for 2000AD in the very early 1990s. I used him in a few other stories whenever I needed a policeman, until finally promoting him to lead actor in Natural Causes.

  1. Start here Natural Causes
  2. The Book of Souls
  3. The Hangman’s Song
  4. Dead Men’s Bones
  5. Prayer for the Dead
  6. The Damage Done
  7. Written in Bones
  8. The Gathering Dark
  9. Cold As The Grave
  10. Bury Them Deep
  11. What Will Burn
  12. All That Lives
  13. For Our Sins
  14. The Rest Is Death
  15. The Violent Hour

Constance Fairchild

3 books

Detective Constable Constance ‘Con’ Fairchild is not your average London cop. Born to the aristocratic Fairchild family, she has nevertheless cut all ties with them and forged a life for herself in the city. Family ties are strong though, and not so easily broken.

  1. Start here No Time To Cry
  2. Nothing To Hide
  3. Nowhere To Run

As the cunningly disguised J D Oswald

The Ballad of Sir Benfro

5 books

The Ballad of Sir Benfro is the five part epic tale of young Benfro, the first male dragon to be hatched in a thousand years, into a world where his kind have been hunted by men to the brink of extinction.

  1. Start here Dreamwalker
  2. The Rose Cord
  3. The Golden Cage
  4. The Broken World
  5. The Obsidian Throne

Broken Ghosts

1 book

Currently my only published standalone novel. Hopefully not my last. All the details you could possibly want about it are here.

  1. Broken Ghosts

Short Stories and Anthologies

5 books

Several of my short stories have been published in anthologies, others have appeared in special editions of my books. You can find a few others to read for free here.

  1. Exit Wounds
  2. Choose The Plot
  3. Dead Simple
  4. An Unnecessary Assassin
  5. The Girl At The End Of The World

One Good Deed

1 book

A free book? That you can read? I am too good for you all.

Originally serialised during the first COVID lockdown to help people while away those endless hours. This isn’t quite good enough to submit to a publisher, or at least I don’t think it is. I wrote it the best part of twenty years ago, so it may have dated a little. Check it out here, if you’re interested.

  1. One Good Deed