A tense and complicated thriller featuring inspector John Rebus from the acclaimed author of BLACK AND BLUE. Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his investigations into a possible war criminal resident in Edinburgh. His immediate superiors are more than happy to have him tucked away in a quiet backwater for several months looking into ancient history. But the Crime Squad are forced to bring him back to the present day when a young upstart gangster, Tommy Telford, muscles in on Big Ger Cafferty's turf and Rebus's local knowledge becomes essential to the efforts to shut down Telford's business as a drug dealer, pimp and extortionist. Before he can act the waters are muddied further when the war criminal is found hanging in Warriston Cemetery.
BCA Crime Thriller of the YearJuly 2005, and the G8 leaders have gathered in Scotland. With daily marches, demonstrations, and scuffles, the police are at full stretch. Detective Inspector John Rebus, however, has been sidelined, until the apparent suicide of an MP coincides with clues that a serial killer may be on the loose. The authorities are keen to hush up both, for fear of overshadowing a meeting of global importance – but Rebus has never been one to stick to the rules, and when his colleague Siobhan Clarke finds herself hunting down the identity of the riot cop who assaulted her mother, it looks as though both Rebus and Clarke may be up pitted against both sides in the conflict. THE NAMING OF THE DEAD is a potent mix of action and politics, set against a backdrop of the most devastating week in recent British history.
Rebus is drafted in by Scotland Yard to help track down a cannibalistic serial killer called the Wolfman, whose first victim was found in the East End of London's lonely Wolf Street. His London colleague, George Flight, isn't happy at what he sees as interference, and Rebus encounters racial prejudice as well as the usual dangers of trying to catch a vicious killer.When Rebus is offered a psychological profile of the Wolfman by an attractive woman, it seems too good an opportunity to miss.
Un antiguo miembro de las Fuerzas Especiales del Ej?rcito irrumpe en un acto de locura en un colegio privado del norte de Edimburgo, mata a dos alumnos de diecisiete a?os y acto seguido se suicida. Tal como dice el inspector Rebus «No hay misterio» salvo en el m?vil. Interrogante que le conduce al coraz?n de una peque?a localidad conmocionada por la tragedia. Rebus, que tambi?n ha servido en el Ej?rcito, fascinado por la figura del asesino, comprueba que una investigaci?n militar del caso entorpece la suya. Al ex comando no le ...
