Edinburgh is about to become the home of the first Scottish parliament in 300 years. As political passions run high, DI John
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On a frosty winter's morning, DI John Rebus & a group of colleagues are in the company of an expert archaeologist on a tour of Queensbury House
- an ex-hospital about to house Her Majesty's parliament in Scotland
- when they stumble across a mummified body secreted behind a wall. Later that same day, a tramp jumps off the North Bridge though the glass roof of Waverly Station, a not unusual occurrence except that ' Supertramp' had in his possession a building society passbook with a balance of over 400, 000 in it. The two cases seem unconnected until a third death
- of a high-profile prospective Member of the Scottish Parliament
- is discovered in Queensbury House's disused summer-house. As Rebus & his h&-picked crew dig up secrets twenty years buried, it begins to look as if Scotland's second attempt at devolution though more successful will be just as dirty... Read by Samuel Gillies