Name: Ghost in the Machine
Author: Ed James
ISBN: 9781479124848

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"Rankin for the Xbox generation"

Detective Constable Scott Cullen of Lothian & Borders CID has only been a full detective for three months. Struggling with his burning ambition, Cullen is assigned a Missing Persons case. Caroline Adamson, a young, recently-divorced Edinburgh mother, has disappeared while on a date.

But when Caroline's body turns up, Cullen digs into her past and her private life starts to unravel. Who was she on a date with? What happened during her divorce? What was she doing on Schoolbook?

Now, as Cullen investigates, his own private life gets messier and the relationship with his DI deteriorates. As other bodies turn up, Cullen soon finds himself hunting for a ghost in the machine.

GHOST IN THE MACHINE is an intense police procedural novel about privacy, loss and social networks that builds to a shocking climax.

Book 1 in the Edinburgh-based police procedural series starring DC Scott Cullen, GHOST IN THE MACHINE has been compared favourably with Ian Rankin, Mark Billingham, Christopher Brookmyre, Ed McBain, Elmore Leonard and Stuart MacBride.

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A Scott Cullen Mystery

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First Edition Apr 2012 Createspace ISBN 1479124842

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Ghost in the Machine