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 hes 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
- & theyll 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...