Order of Inspector McLean Books
Inspector McLean is the protagonist in a series of crime fiction/mystery novels by Scottish novelist James Oswald. Detective Inspector Tony McLean works in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland.
James Oswald began his Inspector McLean series in 2012 with the novel Natural Causes. The novel was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger Prize. Oswald followed it up later the same year with The Book of Souls. The series is currently ongoing. Below is a list of James Oswald’s Inspector Tony McLean books in order of when they were first released (which is the same as their chronological order):
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Publication Order of Inspector McLean Books
| Natural Causes | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Book of Souls | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hangman's Song | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dead Men's Bones | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Prayer for the Dead | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Damage Done | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Written in Bones | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Gathering Dark | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cold as the Grave | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bury Them Deep | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What Will Burn | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| All That Lives | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| For Our Sins | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Rest Is Death | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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Inspector Tony McLean Synopsis: In The Book of Souls by James Oswald, every year for a decade, a woman has been found somewhere in Edinburgh. She is always naked with her throat cut and her body cleaned. His final victim was his mistake – Kirsty Summers, finacee of Detective Constable Tony McLean. 12 years later, the Christmas Killer is murdered by a fellow inmate. And now, it’s Christmas again and there’s another young woman’s body left naked, washed and with a slit throat. Is a copycat killer at work? Did Tony McLean send the wrong man behind bars? Inspector McLean must revisit the worst case of his life before this killer strikes again.
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