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1888: A violinist is brutally murdered in his Edinburgh home. Fearing a national panic over a copycat Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard send Inspector Ian Frey. Frey reports to Detective "Nine-Nails" McGray, local legend and exact opposite of the foppish English Inspector. McGray’s tragic past has driven him to superstition, but even Frey must admit that this case seems beyond belief.There was no way in or out of the locked music studio. And there are black magic symbols on the floor. The dead man’s maid swears there were three musicians playing before the murder. And the suspects all talk of a cursed violin once played by the Devil himself.Inspector Frey has always been a man of reason—but the longer this investigation goes on, the more his grasp on reason seems to be slipping...
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7 primary books8 released booksFrey & McGray is a 8-book series with 7 primary works first released in 2015 with contributions by Oscar de Muriel.
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Well, this turned out to be really fun! Went by faster than I expected, but that's all right; the plot was such that if it slowed down too much, it'd start to get boring, but the author hit just the right pace for it to move fast without missing out on any interesting details. McGray is all sorts of fun to read about, and highly-sympathetic; Frey was fun to read about too, but it was even more fun to read about his snooty self getting taken down a peg or two every so often. Definitely best enjoyed with a cup of tea