The thirteenth Inspector Rebus novel from No 1 bestselling author Ian Rankin Rebus is off the case
- literally A few days into the murder inquiry of an Edinburgh art dealer Rebus blows up at a colleague He is sent to the Scottish Police College for 'retraining'
- in other words he's in the Last Chance Saloon Rebus is assigned to an old unsolved case but there are those in his team who have their own secrets
- & they'll stop at nothing to protect them Rebus is also asked to act as a go-between for gangster ' Big Ger' Cafferty & as newly promoted DS Siobhan Clarke works the case of the murdered art dealer she is brought closer to Cafferty than she could ever have anticipated