Fleshmarket Close

Resumen del libro

An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. But Rebus is that most stubborn of creatures. As Rebus investigates, he must visit an asylum seekers' detention centre, deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and maybe even fall in love...

Siobhan meanwhile has problems of her own. A teenager has
disappeared from home and Siobhan is drawn into helping the family, which will mean travelling closer than is healthy towards the web of a convicted rapist. Then there's the small matter of the two skeletons - a woman and an infant - found buried beneath a concrete cellar floor in Fleshmarket Close. The scene begins to look like an elaborate stunt - but whose, and for what purpose? And how can it tie to the murder on the unforgiving housing-scheme known as Knoxland?

Biografía del autor

IAN RANKIN (Cardenden, 1960) es uno de los escritores con más carácter de la novela negra actual y su personaje, John Rebus, uno de los policías más carismáticos del género. En 1987, inició con x{0026}lt;i Nudos y crucesx{0026}lt;/i la aclamada serie de novelas ambientadas en su Escocia natal, que está siendo publicada por RBA. Con x{0026}lt;i Asuntos internosx{0026}lt;/i dio comienzo a una nueva saga protagonizada por el inspector Malcolm Fox. Entre los numerosos galardones con los que se ha reconocido su talento destacan el Edgar Award, recibido en dos ocasiones por x{0026}lt;i Resurrecciónx{0026}lt;/i y x{0026}lt;i Black and Bluex{0026}lt;/i (novela que recibió también el Gold Dagger), el Grand Prix de Littérature Policière por x{0026}lt;i En la oscuridadx{0026}lt;/i , el Premio Pepe Carvalho 2010 por toda su trayectoria y el X Premio RBA de Novela Policiaca 2016 por x{0026}lt;i Perros salvajesx{0026}lt;/i . Asimismo, es caballero de la Orden del Imperio Británico.