Ian Rankin - Black and Blue Inspector John Rebus must disinter all four cases to nail just one killer. And do it while facing the glare of an internal inquiry led by a man he has just accused of taking backhanders from Glasgow's Mr Big, and with TV cameras at his back investigating a miscarriage of justice. One mistake is likely to mean an unpleasant and not particularly speedy death or, worse still,losing his job. 'With BLACK AND BLUE' Ian Rankin joins the elite of British crime writing' Marcel Berlins THE TIMES.
Ian Rankin - Let It Bleed Two boys hug and jump... One man blows his brains out and does his lady a last favour... Alone in his cell another sets a ball rolling that may demolish a glittering career... Everyone keeps secrets and sometimes not just their own. In an Edinburgh winter the wind blows chill and penetrating. For Rebus it slams one door shut only to open another. Investigating the disappearance of the Provost's daughter leads him from the Old Town to Silicon Gel, from drug addicts to government ministers. And plants the seed that grows into a nagging belief that there may be some criminals beyond the grasp of modern justice.
Ian Rankin - Mortal Causes The last people to die in Mary King's Close had been plague victims. But that was in the 1700s. Now a body has been discovered, brutally tortured and murdered in Edinburgh's buried city. Inspector John Rebus, ex army, spots a paramilitary link, but how can this be true? It is August in Edinburgh, the Festival is in full swing. No one wants to contemplate terrorism in the throng ing city streets.
Ian Rankin - Strip Jack SOMEONE IS STRIPPING JACK NAKED... Gregor Jack, MP, well like, young, married to the fiery Elizabeth to the outside world a very public sucess story. But Jack's carefully nurtured career plans take a tumble after a 'mistake' during a police raid on a notorious Edinburgh brothel. Then Elizabeth disappears, a couple of bodies float into viewwhere they shouldn't, and a lunatic speaks from his asylum... With his wife missing, his job on the line, and his sanity in doubt, Gregor Jack is ripe for revenge.
Ian Rankin - Hide and Seek A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat and he's just another dead addict. Nobody but Detective Inspector John Rebus, prowling the streets of the city in search of somthing so evil he can almost taste it, confronting the darkness within himself as well as without, gives a damn. Rebus digs deeper into the death which looks more and more like murder. There is something savage and seductive at large in Edinburgh, something from which there is nowhere to hide.
