Mortal causes

By Ian Rankin

Subjects: Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Rebus, inspector (fictitious character), fiction, Edinburgh (scotland), fiction, Scotland, fiction, Inspector Rebus (Fictitious character), Fiction

Description: 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.