- Murder, Police corruption, Investigation, Police internal investigation
"Asked to take on a simple case of police abuse, Malcolm Fox suddenly finds himself digging up a macabre death from the eighties. Little does he know that the answers he finds in that dark period of Scottish history will lead him to the highest echelons of power"--Jacket.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Ian Rankin
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Orion Books, Orion, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781409136507
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