Author: Ian Rankin

I think one of the things I like about the Rebus books is that the lead character isn’t the only one who solves the crime. As I suspect in real life, finding the criminal is a collaboration between several people involved in or surrounding the case.

In this book a young man has been found dead of an apparent overdose. Rebus is suspicious that there is more at play here when the body has traces of rat poison that has been mixed with the drugs while the packet of drugs next to the body are clean. It takes several other police officers to piece together the strange string of events that led to the death of not only the young man but also several suspicious suicides in the week following.

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