The Hangman's Song is the thrilling third novel in James Oswald's Inspector McLean series set in Edinburgh. The body of a man is founding hanging in an empty house. To the Edinburgh police force this appears to be a simple suicide case. Days later another body is found. The body is hanging from an identical rope and the noose has been tied using the same knot. Then a third body is found. As McLean digs deeper he descends into a world where the lines of reality are blurred and that the most irrational answers become the only explanations. The first two titles in the series, Natural Causes and The Book of Souls, are both available as Penguin Paperbacks and ebooks. Praise for James Oswald: A star of Scotland's burgeoning crime fiction scene. (Daily Record). Crime fiction's next big thing. (The Sunday Telegraph). Literary sensation... James' overnight success has drawn comparisons with the meteoric rise of EL James and her Fifty Shades of Grey series. (Daily Mail). Fifty Shades of Hay. (The Times). Oswald is among the leaders in the new batch of excellent Scottish crime writers. (Daily Mail). The new Ian Rankin. (Daily Record). The hallmarks of Val McDermid or Ian Rankin: it's dark, violent, noirish. (The Herald).