Edinburgh is a city steeped in history and tradition, a seat of learning, of elegant living, known as the 'Athens of the North'. But that isn't all. The city's flip-side is a city of grudges, blackmail, violence, greed and fear - where past and present clash and old wounds fester. In any year Detective Inspector John Rebus can expect gang warfare, murder, assault and battery at the very least. In this collection he investigates the hanging of a student actor during the Festival, an arson attack on a bird watcher and the witnessing of an apparent miracle...
- ISBN10 0312280270
- ISBN13 9780312280277
- Publish Date 12 February 2002 (first published 1 June 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Minotaur Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English