The Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author is back... More gripping crime fiction with a contemporary theme and starring Inspector Rebus CD contains an exclusive interview with Ian Rankin specially recorded for the audio. An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack, or something else? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. As Rebus investigates, he must visit an asylum seekers' detention centre, deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and maybe even fall in love...Siobhan has problems of her own. A teenager has disappeared from home and Siobhan is drawn into helping the family, which means travelling too close towards the web of a convicted rapist. Then there are two skeletons - a woman and an infant -found buried beneath a concrete cellar floor in Fleshmarket Close. The scene begins to look like an elaborate stunt - but whose, and for what purpose? And how can it tie to the murder on the unforgiving housing-scheme known as Knoxland?
Edimburgo está a punto de convertirse, al cabo de casi tres siglos, en anfitriona del primer Parlamento escocés, un hito histórico y político que enciende pasiones. El inspector Rebus ha sido destinado al comite de enlace de seguridad del Parlamento, en Queensberry House, centro mismo del distrito de la comisaria de St. Leonard. De Queensberry House, futura sede del gobierno de la nueva Escocia, perdura la maldicion de una leyenda, una maldicion que segun algunos recaera sobre los nuevos inquilinos.Los problemas empiezan cuando, en la antigua chimenea donde de acuerdo con la leyenda murio asado un joven, aparece el cadaver de Roddy Grieve,candidato a un escaño en el nuevo Parlamento.
John Biblia aterrizó a Glasgow en los años 60 y 70, cuando asesinó a tres mujeres que había conocido en una sala de baile; asesinatos por los cuales nunca pudieron detenerlo. Ahora, Johnny Biblia, como lo han bautizado los medios de comunicacion, parece matar para apropiarse la gloria del legendario asesino. Son cuatro los casos que el inspector, John Rebus, relaciona y que aparentemente conducen al depravado asesino.
Le festival théâtral d'Édimbourg bat son plein. Mais l'inspecteur John Rebus n'a pas le cœur à se mêler à la liesse générale : on a découvert, dans les couloirs de la vieille ville souterraine, le cadavre d'un jeune homme. Il a été torturé et assassiné selon la méthode utilisée par l'IRA pour punir les traîtres. Or la victime semble avoir été plutôt liée aux nationalistes écossais. Les feux d'artifice du festival risquent d'être particulièrement explosifs cette année...
When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days.Rebus fears the worst - and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect.He wasn't the best father - the job always came first - but now his daughter needs him more than ever. But is he going as a father or a detective?As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast - and a small town with big secrets - he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is the one thing he doesn't want to find...
