Small Paperback, Good Condition, 1998, 411 pages, ISBN 0 75281 711 6

The Hanging Garden – Ian Rankin

An Inspector Rebus Novel: 9

D.I. John Rebus is on the paper trail of a WWII war criminal... until the running battle between two rival gangs on the city streets arrives at his door. A Chechen gangster is running prostitutes out of Bosnia via Tommy Telford, a Glaswegian upstart muscling in on Edinburgh territory. When his own daughter is the victim of a hit and run Rebus is forced to acknowledge that there is nothing he wouldn't do to bring down prime suspect Telford - even if it means cutting a deal with the devil.

"The two cases (Rebus) is investigating here are complex, like one of those fiendishly difficult double-sided jigsaws. The skill with which Rankin fits them together is formidable." – Sunday Telegraph