The novel “The Book of Souls” by James Oswald was published for the first time in 2013. It’s the second novel in the Tony McLean series and is the sequel to “Natural Causes”.

Inspector Tony McLean has never totally recovered from the murder of his fiancee. When her murderer Donald Anderson is killed in prison, McLean feels very few emotions even if he goes to see his burial to make sure he’s really dead.

Years have passed since the murder but suddenly in Edinburgh someone finds the body of a woman killed following the same modus operandi of Anderson. How is that possible? For McLean that’s an old wound that gets reopened and the worst thing is that someone insinuates that Anderson wasn’t the murderer. McLean and his colleagues have to find the perpetrator but what does an old book have to do with the crimes?