by IanRankin (Author)
An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. But Rebus is the most stubborn of creatures. As Rebus investigates, he must visit an asylum-seekers' detention centre, deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and maybe even fall in love...Siobhan meanwhile has problems of her own. A teenager has disappeared from home and Siobhan is drawn into helping the family, which will mean travelling closer than is healthy towards the web of a convicted rapist. Then there's the small matter of the 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?
Format: Unknown Binding
Pages: 416
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Orion
Published: 24 Sep 2004
ISBN 10: 0752851128
ISBN 13: 9780752851129
Book Overview: Ian Rankin's last two novels - A QUESTION OF BLOOD and RESURRECTION MEN - have been Sunday Times number one bestsellers. Ian has an incredibly high profile. In 2003, he had his own TV series (IAN RANKIN'S EVIL THOUGHTS), received his OBE, guested on Newsnight Review and was a constant contributor to the national press. In 2003, Rankin sold over one million books and he now makes up 10 per cent of all UK crime sales! 'Recent crime writers have at their disposal all the opening for alienation afforded by the modern world - and, if one of them has to be singled out as being especially attuned to contemporary murder and social malaise, it is Ian Rankin' The Times
Prizes: Winner of British Book Awards: Crime Thriller of the Year 2005.