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I'm really enjoying this series with its mix of authentic-feeling (to this non-cop) police procedural with supernatural elements. I like that Tony McLean 1) will not stop digging on a case until he gets the truth, even when that tenacity is detrimental to his career, 2) cares for the people on his team, 3) his response to the supernatural situations he finds himself in- a mixture of acceptance and exasperation- amuses me.

Leaving a surprisingly chilly Atlanta to go back home to chilly Denver, while reading about winter in Scotland. 🌧☔️❄️🌨

Inspector McLean number 4
This was the best one yet of this series. Thank you @EadieB for turning me on to this. And maybe you too @Andrew65 ? A body is found in the gorge, completely covered with fresh tattoos. A rich industrialist kills his family and himself. McLean is assigned the investigation, so he can take the fall, of course. The end of this book had me laughing, but the rest of it certainly didn't. What a book.⬇️

2021- book 14 Not as good as book 3, I didn‘t find this one as engrossing or believable and I found some of the subject matter (child murder) difficult to read through. But it hasn‘t put me off, I‘m still definitely going to read no.5 in the series. I‘m getting to know the main characters and I want to know what happens to the detective and his team next.

This was meant to be my last book of 18 but ended being 1st of 2019 and v enjoyable read it was. Im slowly getting used to supernatural crime esp when its done well. Tony maclean here back in work after the horrors of his last outing investigates an msp's suicide and the death of a tattooed man. A particularly nasty villain adds to the tension. Slightly flat ending but still a good page turner to start the yr.

I really enjoyed this book for most of the time, enjoying the characters, plotting and way the story was told. However I felt let down by the ending, where I don‘t think everything was resolved and was too much based on the supernatural. As a result I enjoyed the other books in the series much more overall. Just be aware this was only my opinion, others that read it as a Group Read mainly gave it 4.5 Stars or 4 at the least.

Starting Dead Men‘s Bones, Book 4 Of The Inspector McLean Series. Always love getting back to books set in Edinburgh, one of my favourite cities. These ones always have a slight element of the supernatural in them.

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I had thought I had given up on this paranormal police procedural after book 3, which was a slog. But then I got books 4-6 in the sales and book 4 is definitely back on form!

This series marries Scottish police procedurals (eg Ian Rankin) with paranormal plots. Dead Man's Bones builds up slowly, as a regular but very good police procedural and the more mysterious element is introduced gradually.

Recommended if you like either genres.

Another Inspector MacLean mystery. Great read!