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Per John Rebus, ispettore della polizia di Edimburgo, il caso da risolvere si preannuncia complesso: Philippa Balfour – Flip per gli amici – una studentessa di vent’anni figlia di un noto banchiere di Edimburgo, sparisce misteriosamente. Si tratta di fuga? Di rapimento? O di omicidio? A poco a poco, dalla vita apparentemente tranquilla della ragazza emergono particolari che contrastano con un’esistenza superficialmente sbiadita. Flip amava gio...

La vita da pensionato non soddisfa l'ispettore Rebus, che non è certo fatto per dedicarsi agli hobby, ai viaggi o ai piccoli lavoretti di casa. La vita da poliziotto è l'unica che conosce e l'unica che ha un senso per lui. Così quando Siobhan Clarke chiede il suo aiuto su un caso, Rebus non ci pensa due volte a tornare in gioco. Clarke sta indagando sull'omicidio di un anziano avvocato il cui corpo è stato trovato accompagnato da un biglietto ...

Encuadernación: Rústica Colección: Serie NegraEscocia está a punto de conseguir un hito histórico anhelado desde hace siglos. Ante la inminente recuperación del Parlamento escocés, que ha de ubicarse en Edimburgo, la expectación en la ciudad es máxima. Aun más teniendo en cuenta que el edificio que se erigirá en sede de la institución guarda un terrible secreto: sobre él se cierne una maldición que vaticina la desgracia de todo el que ose ocup...

Nobody likes The Complaints--they're the cops who investigate other cops. It's a department known within the force as "The Dark Side, " and it's where Malcolm Fox works. He's a serious man with a father in a nursing home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship, frustrating problems about which he cannot seem to do anything. Then, in the midst of an aggressive Edinburgh winter, the reluctant Fox is given a new case. There's a cop n...

Three friends descend upon an art auction in search of some excitement. Mike Mackenzie-retired software mogul, bachelor and fine art enthusiast-wants something that money can't buy. Fellow art-lover Allan Cruickshank is bored with his banking career and burdened by a painful divorce. And Robert Gissing, an art professor, is frustrated that so many paintings stay hidden in corporate boardrooms, safes and private apartments. After the auction-an...

Sein neuer Arbeitsplatz: die "Cold Case"-Abteilung in Edinburgh. Doch so leicht lässt sich John Rebus, Detective Inspector a.D., nicht ausmustern. Ein Mädchen aus Edinburgh wird vermisst. Als sich eine Verbindung zwischen dem aktuellen Fall und mehreren Uralt-Vermisstenfällen andeutet, benötigt Rebus für seine Ermittlungen die Hilfe seiner ehemaligen Kollegin Siobhan Clarke. Durch seine unorthodoxen Methoden gefährdet er prompt ihre Karriere. ...

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Following the success of OxTales and OxTravels, this is the latest Oxfam fundraiser, introduced by Britain's greatest crime writer, Ian Rankin, and featuring a compelling cast of suspects including Mark Billingham, Alexander McCall Smith, Anthony Horowitz, Sophie Hannah, Peter James, Adrian McKinty, Denise Mina, SJ Parris and a host of other compelling writers. For 2014, Oxfam and Profile have turned to crime in order to raise a further £200, ...

SUNDAY TIMES No.1 bestseller Ian Rankin's latest gripping Rebus novel.

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A new Rebus novel from the "Sunday Times" no.1 bestseller. Rebus finds his old team suspected of foul play when a 30 year old case is reopened. Does Rebus have anything to hide? Now in paperback. 'A brilliant return - for Rebus and Rankin' "Evening Standard

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A "Sunday Times" bestseller in HB, Rebus comes out of retirement when a long-dead cold case bursts back to life, but with his feet firmly under the CID desk more, how long will it be before he clashes with his superiors, and DI Siobhan Clarke? '"Standing In Another Man's Grave" is Rankin's most interesting book politically... Cheeringly, it seems clear from the final pages that there will be more Rebus books to chart the next stage in Scotland...

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»Rebus ein letztes Mal in Hochform!" Münchner Merkur Als in Edinburgh der russische Dichter und Dissident Alexander Todorow ermordet wird, bleibt Inspector Rebus nicht viel Zeit, um die Wahrheit zu finden. In wenigen Tagen endet seine Dienstzeit, und er weiß, dass seine Vorgesetzten die Sache am liebsten schnell zu den Akten legen würden. Ihrer Ansicht fiel Todorow einem Raubüberfall mit tödlichem Ausgang zum Opfer, doch Rebus argwöhnt, dass r...

A fantastic stand-alone thriller from the No.1 bestselling author.

Scottish homicide detective John Rebus has been sent from "North of the Border" to help London police catch a serial killer with a gruesome M.O. Teamed with a London cop he wants to trust but can't, Rebus lets a beautiful psychologist into the case develops a bizarre portrait of a killer who leaves bite marks and tears on each victim's body. Now it's only a question of who is going to get busted first: the cop with the accent who breaks all th...