Let It Bleed An Inspector Rebus Novel

In the dark days and biting windstorms of an Edinburgh winter, two drop-out kids dive off the towering Forth Road Bridge. A civic office is spattered by a grisly gun-blast. Two suicides and a murder that just don't add up, unless John Rebus can crunch the numbers. Following a trail that snakes through stark alleys and sad bars, shredded files and lacerated lives, Rebus finds himself up against an airtight, murderous conglomerate on the make in every arena of power. It's leeching the life and soul out of his city and, if it can, him too...

Ian Rankin won England's prestigious Gold Dagger Award for Black and Blue, which was also an Edgar Award nominee. Dead Souls was nominated for another Gold Dagger prize. Rankin lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and two sons.