The festival is in full swing – and a killer hides among the crowds…
It is August in Edinburgh, and beneath streets packed with tourists, a body is found in one of the city’s ancient underground passages.
Marks on the corpse cause Detective Inspector John Rebus to suspect sectarian involvement – and dread the prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city filled to bursting point.
But when the victim turns out to be the son of a notorious gangster, the old currents of violence stir in the shadows, pitting Rebus in a race against time to stop them spilling out…
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‘Ian Rankin is a genius’
LEE CHILD
‘The king of crime fiction’
SUNDAY EXPRESS
‘Rankin is a phenomenon’
SPECTATOR
‘Rebus is one of British crime writing’s greatest characters’
DAILY MAIL
Reviews
Rankin continues to be unsurpassed among living British crime writers ... He makes the reader feel part of the scene, and enhances the experience with his virtuosity with dialogue ... But all these virtues would count for little if Rankin didn't also possess the most important asset of them all - the ability to tell a damned good story
Britain's No.1 crime writer
Ian Rankin is a genius
Rankin is streets ahead in the British police procedural writing field
Rankin is without doubt Britain's best crime novelist
