Leopard wakes up with a fluttery tummy. " It's my birthday!" he shouts with glee.
"I'm awfully excited,
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Read by James Macpherson. A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict, until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit & sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like a murder every day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste, appealing to the darkest corners of his mind. Warning
- Contains strong language & some scenes described may be disturbing.