Ian Rankin

En un bosque al sudeste de Edimburgo han encontrado el cadáver de un detective privado desaparecido desde hace más de una década. John Rebus conoce bien el caso, porque originalmente formó parte del equipo encargado de la investigación, que estuvo plagada de errores e intereses ocultos. Ahora tanto Rebus como la policía tienen una segunda oportunidad para atrapar al culpable, pero las presiones de la familia de la víctima y la prensa...

As Detective Inspector John Rebus ties up loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on Rebus's desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong.

"When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days. Rebus fears the worst--and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect. He wasn't the best father--the job always came first--but now his daughter needs him more than ever. But is he going as a father or a detective? As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast--and a...

Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. He's investigating a car accident when news arrives that a case from 30 years ago is being reopened. Rebus's team from those days -- who called themselves "The Saints" -- is suspected of helping a murderer escape justice to further their own ends. And Malcolm Fox, in what will be his last case as an internal affairs cop, is tasked with finding out the truth.

An art auction turns deadly in this daring thriller of double-crossing crime rings, sly sleuths, and carefully planned heists.

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

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John Rebus has trouble in the form of a paroled murderer, a pedophile and the missing son of a former sweetheart, all coming together in a mystery that could cost him everything.

Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is investigating the death of a senior lawyer during a robbery. The case becomes more complex when a note is discovered, indicating that this may have been no random attack. When local gangster Big Ger Cafferty receives an identical message, Clarke decides that the recently retired John Rebus may be able to help. Together the two old adversaries might just stand a chance of saving Cafferty's skin. But a notorious...

"Michael Weston is paid well to do his work and ask no questions. When you're a professional assassin, total secrecy is part of the job. But after a successful mission in London, the police are immediately on his tail. How did they know how to find him? And who is his anonymous employer? Why did he or she want his target, a TV reporter, killed? Was he set up from the start? The questions lead Weston to his nemesis Hoffer, a private detective who has...

While investigating a series of gory killings of young, innocent girls, Edinburgh police detective John Rebus, a former member of Britain's elite SAS, discovers his own ties to the killer and is brought up against his own memories, which hold the key to unraveling the case.