Mortal Causes

Ian Rankin

About this book

Detective and mystery stories. It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing ... A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving with tourists is almost unthinkable. When the victim turns out to be the son of a notorious gangster, Rebus realises he is sitting atop a volcano of mayhem - and it's just about to erupt.

Subjects

  • detective and mystery stories
  • edinburgh (scotland), fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
  • fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
  • inspector rebus (fictitious character)
  • police
  • police in fiction
  • rebus, inspector (fictitious character), fiction
  • scotland, fiction