When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's notebook, Rebus must piece together the most complex and confusing of jigsaws. But not everyone wants the puzzle solved - perhaps not even Rebus himself ...
- ISBN10 1857974131
- ISBN13 9781857974133
- Publish Date 1 September 1994 (first published 12 August 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 August 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Orion mass market paperback
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 352
- Language English