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A Good Hanging
St. Martin's, Feb 2002, 23.95, 256 pp. ISBN: 0312280270 consists of twelve police procedural investigations starring John Rebus and co-st...

A Question of Blood
Small time crook Martin Fairstone dies in a fire which may have been started deliberately. Inspector John Rebus was seen leaving Fairstone's home shor...

Hide and Seek
There are two sides of Edinburgh, Scotland. There's the side that tourists see: the city of Grayfriar's Bobby, of the annual Summer Festival, of the ...

Knots And Crosses
Someone is strangling children in Edinburgh. Inspector John Rebus starts receiving what he thinks are crank letters, each enclosing a small neatly ti...

Let It Bleed
Inspector John Rebus chases two teenage kids driving a car across the Forth Bridge high over the ocean north of Edinburgh. The two kids jump off the ...

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Mortal Causes
It is August during the Edinburgh Festival when Inspector John Rebus is called to investigate a brutally tortured body found hanging in the medieval s...



Resurrection Men
Little, Brown, Feb 2003, 19.95, 448 pp. ISBN: 0316766844 Though he knows he should never have displayed his anger by tossing the coffee cup in...

Set in Darkness
Inspector John Rebus has been stuck on the liaison committee between the police and the new Scottish Parliament which is taking forever to build. Rebu...

Strip Jack
An Scottish member of parliament Gregor Jack is caught in a raid on an Edinburgh brothel. This causes a media frenzy and Jack's explanation that he w...

The Black Book
A fire consumed Edinburgh's Central Hotel five years ago. The Central was down-at-the-heels and when no blame was ever placed for the fire, no one ca...

The Falls
Edinburgh detective Inspector John Rebus is called in to investigate the disappearance of pretty young student Philippa Balfour. As the chances of fin...

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The Hanging Garden
Detective Inspector John Rebus is investigating a suspected Nazi war criminal. But because a young Bosnian woman forced into prostitution reminds Reb...

Witch Hunt
Little, Brown, Sep 2004, 19.95, 400 pp. ISBN: 0316009105 They call Cassandra Chameleon a witch because of her abilities to change her identity...

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