Fleshmarket CloseAn illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme. Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters want him to retire. But Rebus is stubborn. As he investigates, he must visit an asylum seekers' detention centre, deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and maybe even fall in love Siobhan meanwhile has problems of her own. A teenager has disappeared and Siobhan

At stake is all humanity

looked into the swirling water

'Pierce Brown's empire-crushing debut is a sprawling vision

The author has won many awards

it takes the reader into the muffled consciousness of her early childhood

on top of this

One day his father's friend Merlin gives him a shining black stone

is convinced that he is in Hell

in October 2012

From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War

avenges it' Annie Garthwaite

where they soon fall in with a circle of lively and volatile expatriates