Gregor Jack, MP, well-liked, young, married to the fiery Elizabeth – to the outside world a very public success 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 view where they shouldn’t, and a lunatic speaks from his asylum…
Initially Rebus is sympathetic to the MP’s dilemma – who hasn’t occasionally succumbed to temptation? – but with the disappearance of Jack’s wife the glamour surrounding the popular young man begins to tarnish. Someone wants to strip Jack naked and Rebus wants to know why…
Read by James Macpherson
(p) 2003 Orion Publishing Group
Initially Rebus is sympathetic to the MP’s dilemma – who hasn’t occasionally succumbed to temptation? – but with the disappearance of Jack’s wife the glamour surrounding the popular young man begins to tarnish. Someone wants to strip Jack naked and Rebus wants to know why…
Read by James Macpherson
(p) 2003 Orion Publishing Group
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Reviews
No one writes more gripping stories than Rankin ... Rebus is a good cop and a masterly creation
Rankin proves himself the master of his own milieu ... There cannot be a better crime novelist
Ian Rankin is a genius
One of the most beguiling characters in the history of crime fiction
Britain's No.1 crime writer
These novels are totally absorbing
An extraordinarily rich addition to crime literature
