FOR OUR SINS

The wages of sin is death The partial collapse of a disused Edinburgh church reveals a dead body in the rubble his head badly smashed by falling masonry Soon identified as an old ex con Kenny Morgan his death is put down to a heart attack and deemed non suspicious Tony McLean is approached by a notorious crime lord who suggests the police should be looking into Morgan s death more closely Despite struggling with his recent retirement he is reluctant to involve himself But when a second man is found dead in another disused church his forehead branded with a cross this time it is clearly murder There s a killer stalking the streets of Edinburgh Is it time for McLean to get back to doing what he does best Praise for James Oswald The new Ian Rankin Daily Record Creepy gritty and gruesome Sunday Mirror Crime fiction s next big thing Sunday Telegraph