Ghost in the Machine

Police Scotland Crime Series, Book 2

By: Ed James

Narrated by: Angus King

An incredibly gripping, tense British murder mystery

Think you're safe online? Think again.

DC Scott Cullen of Lothian and Borders CID has only been in the job three months. Young, eager to please and desperate to do good. So a missing persons should be an easy case to solve. Right?

Fresh from a messy divorce, Caroline Adamson’s future is finally looking up. Her son seems happy and she’s dating again. Trouble is, Cullen can’t find Caroline or the man she met on Schoolbook, the latest social network taking Edinburgh by storm.

When Caroline’s mutilated body is found, Edinburgh faces the reality of a serial killer hunting young women. The discovery of a second, connected victim leads DI Brian Bain to put Caroline’s ex-husband in the frame. Cullen isn’t so sure and is determined that the right person faces justice. As things take a personal turn, Cullen must look closer to home for the answer—before it’s too late.

A gritty, gripping and wholly satisfying modern crime novel, Ghost in the Machine asks if we’re ever safe online, and how do we know who to trust? For fans of Ian Rankin, Stuart McBride, Alex Smith and JD Kirk, Ghost in the Machine is the novel that introduced listeners to ambitious maverick Detective Scott Cullen, whose Police Scotland series has set the bestseller charts alight.

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I know I have listened to this one before. It may have been for free as it doesn’t show up in my library and it is a while ago so finding it in my listening history will be more time than I wish to spend. So is Audible or Ed James trying to pull the wool over our heads? I know there are more in this series as I also listened to the one about the whiskey distillery which I liked and also have book #5 in hardcover. I am very unhappy that they are not being transparent. And that they removed the two from my library that I have already listened to which is underhanded especially if I already paid for them. I am torn as I want to give the book low marks because of that but they don’t have a rating for “deceitful” and I don’t want to mess with the algorithm.

All the smut language.

The constant swearing detracted from the story . I could not finish the book because of that.

very disappointed because it the same crime, same names of the victim and the same outcome as another book!

It was a good book the first time but annoying this time because I wasted money on the same story with a different name!