In the biting winds of an Edinburgh winter, two troubled youths leap from the towering Forth Road Bridge. Their tragic plunge marks the start of a harrowing investigation that Inspector John Rebus cannot ignore.
Simultaneously, a chilling gunshot resounds in a civic office, leaving a grim spatter of blood. With two apparent suicides and a murder intertwined, Rebus has a tangled web to dissect.
As he uncovers the sordid underbelly of Edinburgh’s elite, refusing to take the easy way out or let go when superiors and VIPs try to warn him away, the stakes escalate toward a resolution that is anything but tidy. A gripping, tense entry in the acclaimed Rebus series.
