Natural Causes (Detective Inspector MacLean, Bk. 1)

A young girl's mutilated body is discovered in a sealed room. Her remains are carefully arranged in what seems to have been a macabre ritual that took place over sixty years ago. For newly appointed Edinburgh Detective Inspector Tony McLean, this baffling cold case ought to be a low priority, but he is haunted by the young victim and her grisly death. Meanwhile, the city is horrified by a series of bloody killings. McLean is convinced that these cases are somehow connected. It is an irrational, almost supernatural theory, and one that will lead McLean closer to the heart of a terrifying and ancient evil . . .