April, 2028, and independent Edinburgh is facing a mounting crime wave.
Experts from the utopian university-state of New Oxford recommend an extreme deterrent - a maximum security prison alongside the central tourist zone. At the prison opening ceremony, the unthinkable happens - an Edinburgh guardian is shot.
Having linked New Oxford to the assassination, maverick investigator Quintilian Dalrymple travels there to close the case. Once there, he discovers evidence of a ruthless conspiracy extending to his home city and the only way to stop it is to penetrate New Oxford's mysterious heart - the place known only as the House of Dust.
- ISBN10 1448300479
- ISBN13 9781448300471
- Publish Date 12 December 2011 (first published 17 September 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Canongate Books Ltd
- Imprint Severn House
- Edition Main
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 416
- Language English