A Good Hanging contains twelve remarkable, gritty short stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his home city of Edinburgh, as only Ian Rankin can portray it.
Not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims – blackmailers, peeping toms, and more than one kind of murderer.
These twelve stories, covering a chronological year in Rebus’s life, include the hanging of a student during the Edinburgh Festival, a gruesome arson attack, and the apparent witnessing of a miracle. Step off the tourist trail and into the macabre heart of Rebus’s Edinburgh.
