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Name: A dark so deadly
Author: Stuart MacBride

DC Callum MacGregor, a member of Police Scotland's Misfit Mob—an assortment of outcasts and troublemakers—gets an unusual assignment: investigate an ancient mummy that surfaces at the Oldcastle tip. The case soon turns from a simple museum theft to a murky investigation that connects the corpse to three missing young men. With O Division's Major Investigation Teams overwhelmed, the Misfit Mob must take on the case alone, confronting a killer whose deliberate, lingering death threatens any chance of justice.

First publish date: 2017

Genre: Suspense/General Suspense

Authors: Stuart MacBride

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