Cold as the Grave: Inspector McLean 9

The ninth book in the Inspector McLean series, from one of Scotland's most celebrated crime writers, is about a dead girl's body hidden in a basement room for decades. Detective Chief Inspector Tony McLean is drawn to a dead-end mews street and a door that leads to her final resting place, but the truth is far more chilling than a simple cold case.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 432 pages
Publication date: 27 June 2019
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

The ninth book in the Sunday Times bestselling phenomenon that is the Inspector McLean series, from one of Scotland's most celebrated crime writers.

Her lifeless body is hidden in the dark corner of a basement room, a room that seems to have been left untouched for decades. A room that feels as cold as the grave.

As a rowdy demonstration makes its slow and vocal way along Edinburgh's Royal Mile, Detective Chief Inspector Tony McLean's team are on standby for any trouble. The newly promoted McLean is distracted, inexplicably drawn to a dead-end mews street... and a door, slightly ajar, that leads to this poor girl's final resting place.

But how long has she been there, in her sleep of death? The answers are far from what McLean or anyone else could expect. The truth far more chilling than a simple cold case.

Praise for James Oswald:

"The new Ian Rankin."

"Daily Record."

"Creepy, gritty, and gruesome."

"Sunday Mirror."

"Crime fiction's next big thing."

"Sunday Telegraph."

Weight: 304g
Dimension: 128 x 197 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472249937