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An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme. 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 as Rebus investigates, he must deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and maybe even fall in love. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD.

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In Edinburgh you're never far from a peaceful spot, or from a hellish one either. Now, in the heart of summer, in the midst of a nationalist festival, Inspector John Rebus is on the murder case of a young man left hanging in a spot where his screams would never be heard. To find the victim's identity--and his killer--Rebus searches from Edinburgh's most violent neighborhood to Belfast, Northern Ireland--amongst petty thugs, gunrunners, and hea...

Twelve remarkable, gritty stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his home city of Edinburgh, as only Ian Rankin can portray it: not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims--blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It's a city like any other, a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accidents, and long-h...

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Inspector John Rebus has confronted Edinburgh's most hardened criminals, its bloodiest crime scenes, and its most dangerous backstreets ? but nothing could have prepared him for what he finds on Fleshmarket Alley.In the city's red-light district, men live out their sordid fantasies, and women with no other choice sell their bodies to make a buck. It's a neighborhood of lost inhibitions, forgotten scruples, and hopeless dreams. In its seediest ...

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Primi di luglio 2005: la Scozia si prepara a ospitare il G8. La polizia di Edimburgo è chiamata agli straordinari. Ma non l'ispettore John Rebus, opportunamente lasciato "di guardia al forte". D'altronde, gli manca poco alla pensione, e poi si sa che è un rompiscatole: meglio non averlo tra i piedi. Rebus però non è tipo da starsene tranquillo a guardare. E la sergente Siobhan Clarke, sua collega e protetta, gli offre un ottimo motivo per gett...

Sono passati dieci anni da quando la figlia è sparita nel nulla, ma Nina Hazlitt non si rassegna. Vuole che la polizia riapra il caso, perché di un fatto è assolutamente certa: la sua Sally, che al momento della scomparsa aveva diciotto anni, non si è allontanata dalla famiglia per seguire un amore o per cambiare vita. Quando Nina si rivolge per l'ennesima volta alla sezione speciale per i crimini irrisolti, a riceverla c'è un ispettore in pen...

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Bei einem Dinner im Caledonian Hotel erinnert sich Rebus an einen Mord, der fast vierzig Jahre zurückliegt: Eine junge lebenslustige Bankiersgattin war das Mordopfer. Die Verdächtigen kamen aus den besten Kreisen, der Täter wurde nie gefasst. Ein Skandal, der Rebus nicht loslässt. Wahrend er sich in den alten Akten vergräbt, gerät das kriminelle Machtgefüge in Edinburgh gefährlich ins Wanken...

Gregor Jack has it all: young, wealthy, and charming, he's a highly respected member of Parliament, witha beautiful wife--and a closet bursting with skeletons. When he's caught in a police raid on an Edinburgh brothel, his house of cards begins to topple. Enter Detective John Rebus: he smells a set-up. When Jack's flamboyant wife Elizabeth disappears, Rebus uncovers a full-house of orgies, drunken parties, an incestuous "Pack" of deceitful chu...

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The latest novel from Britain's best-loved crime writer, now in paperback. Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Malcolm Fox is one of them, and in the midst of an Edinburgh winter, he is set on the trail of bent cop, Jamie Breck.

Inspector John Rebus has confronted Edinburgh's most hardened criminals, its bloodiest crime scenes, and its most dangerous backstreets ? but nothing could have prepared him for what he finds on Fleshmarket Alley.In the city's red-light district, men live out their sordid fantasies, and women with no other choice sell their bodies to make a buck. It's a neighborhood of lost inhibitions, forgotten scruples, and hopeless dreams. In its seediest ...