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The Damage Done

Inspector McLean 6

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The Damage Done

By: James Oswald
Narrated by: Ian Hanmore
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About this listen

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Damage Done by James Oswald, read by Ian Hanmore. The sixth book in James Oswald's phenomenal Inspector McLean series set in Edinburgh.

Inspector McLean is back in the next gripping instalment in James Oswald's best-selling crime series. McLean must investigate the seedy goings-on of an exclusive and secretive society catering to the rich and powerful of the city. Somehow it is linked to a particularly gruesome cold case from 20 years ago - McLean's first case with the force.

The Damage Done follows Natural Causes, the R&J summer highlight; The Book of Souls; The Hangman's Song; Dead Men's Bones; and Prayer for the Dead.

©2016 James Oswald (P)2016 Penguin Audio Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense

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Critic reviews

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 E. L. 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)
"A good read." ( The Times)
An excellent start to what promises to be a fine series." ( Guardian)
"Classy, occasionally brutal, and with the odd suggestion of the supernatural, this will doubtless be another deserved hit. Oswald's writing is in a class above most in this genre." ( Daily Express)
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Just love these books, they get better and better and the narrator is superb, a voice I can listen to with ease

Brilliant as usual

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Really Looking forward to the next in the series. The characters improve with every book.

Best in the series so far.

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Listened to this book in four days and thoroughly enjoyed yet another episode of these James Oswald dark classics. All the characters are like old friends well met, Grumpy Bob, even Tony waiting for the postcard from Emma. A new character "call me Stevie". All of them finely drawn and adding to the enjoyment of the novel. Bit of a surprise ending with this one though. Keep them coming Mr Oswald, I love them and Ian Hanmore's performance is second to none.

Another brilliant story

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the narrator is brilliant could sit and listen to him all day enjoy these books

loved the latest book in the series

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What made the experience of listening to The Damage Done the most enjoyable?

So different from other stories by this author

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Damage Done?

Being interviewed by call me ?????

What does Ian Hanmore bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Did narrate the book well. I can listen to this in one hit if I want. Could not do this by reading.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Twins unexpected

Ghoulish stuff

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