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Author: Rankin, Ian

Crime & mystery

Published on 2 January 2025 by Orion Publishing Co (Orion) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the A Rebus Novel’ series.

Paperback | 304 pages
129 x 197 x 24 | 264g

The third Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of MIDNIGHT AND BLUE’No one writes better crime novels’ EVENING STANDARD*****LONDON IS CALLING.

WILL REBUS FIND THE ANSWER?Detective Inspector John Rebus is hand-picked to help catch a serial killer down in London. The Edinburgh cop doesn’t like the big city – and it doesn’t seem that his new colleagues at The Met like him much either.

As the case gets its teeth into him, his only hope is to work with a psychological profiler to build a picture of the mind of a dangerous psychopath.

But the closer Rebus gets to the truth, the closer he becomes with his only ally in the capital too – which may give the killer all he needs to win this game of cat-and-mouse and close the case for good…

***** PRAISE FOR THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IAN RANKIN: ‘Ian Rankin is a genius’ LEE CHILD ‘Rebus is one of British crime writing’s greatest characters: alongside Holmes, Poirot and Morse’ DAILY MAIL ‘Whatever he writes, it will be worth reading … Rankin has redefined the genre’ GUARDIAN ‘The arrival of a Rankin novel remains one of life’s pleasures’ EXPRESS ‘Rankin is a phenomenon’ SPECTATOR ‘Worthy of Agatha Christie at her best’ SCOTSMAN ‘The king of crime fiction’ SUNDAY EXPRESS ‘Great fiction, full stop’ THE TIMES **** Ian Rankin’s A HEART FULL OF HEADSTONES was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 10th October 2022 and w/c 1st May 2023