Ian Rankin: Mortal Causes (USA 2009)

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In Edinburgh you're never far from a peaceful spot, or from a hellish one either. Now, in the heart of summer, in the midst of a nationalist festival, Inspector John Rebus is on the murder case of a young man left hanging in a spot where his screams would never be heard. To find the victim's identity--and his killer--Rebus searches from Edinburgh's most violent neighborhood to Belfast, Northern Ireland--amongst petty thugs, gunrunners, and heavyweight criminals. But before Rebus can get to the truth, he's bloodied by the dream of society's madmen--and staring into the glint of a killer's eyes.

Ian Rankin: Mortal Causes. An Inspector Rebus Novel. St. Martin's Minotaur, ISBN: 9780312565633 (August 2009), 310 p., $14.99.

Ian Rankin: Mortal Causes (UK 2008)

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It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing...
A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving with tourists is almost unthinkable.

When the victim turns out to be the son of a notorious gangster, Rebus realises he is sitting atop a volcano of mayhem - and it's just about to erupt.

Ian Rankin: Mortal Causes. An Inspector Rebus Novel. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752883585 (August, 2008), 320 p., £7.99.

Ian Rankin: Mortal Causes (UK 2005)

From the Publisher:
It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing...
A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving with tourists is almost unthinkable.

When the victim turns out to be the son of a notorious gangster, Rebus realises he is sitting atop a volcano of mayhem - and it's just about to erupt.

Ian Rankin: Mortal Causes. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752877208 (September, 2005), 320 p., £6.99.

Ian Rankin: Mortal Causes (UK 2001)

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The last people to die in Mary King's Close had been plague victims. But that was in the 1700s. Now a body has been discovered, brutally tortured and murdered in Edinburgh's buried city. Inspector John Rebus, ex-army, spots a paramilitary link. It is August in Edinburgh, the Festival is in full swing. No one wants to contemplate terrorism in the thronging city streets. Special Branch are interested, however, and Rebus finds himself seconded to an elite police unit with the mission of smashing whatever terrorist cell may exist. But the victim turns out to be a gangster's son, and the gangster wants revenge on his own terms.

Ian Rankin: Mortal Causes. TV Tie-In. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752844148 (September, 2001), 320 p., £5.99.

Ian Rankin: Mortal Causes (USA 1997)

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As a nationalist festival invades Edinburgh, a young man's tortured body is found in a medieval cellar far beneath the city's streets. Now, to find a killer, Inspector John Rebus must travel from Edinburgh's most violent neighborhood to Belfast, Northern Ireland - and make it back alive...

Ian Rankin: Mortal Causes. St. Martin's Paperbacks, ISBN: 0312960948 (January, 1997), 278 p., $6.99.

Ian Rankin: Mortal Causes (USA 1995)

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Inspector John Rebus hates the Edinburgh Festival. He especially hates that last Saturday night. He has spent years on the police force confronting it, avoiding it, and cursing it, but most of the time he still gets caught up in it. Nevertheless, this is an honored tradition of Scotland, and a happy one at that. But amid the blaring noise created by the music, laughter, and toasts of "Slainte" as glasses of whiskey are swilled, another tradition - one older than music, happiness, and drink itself - has traveled to Edinburgh and nested itself in the medieval quarter of Mary King's Close. There, beneath the streets of Edinburgh, Inspector Rebus finds the lifeless body of Billy Cunningham swinging from a butcher's hook and knows that his problems have only begun. When Big Ger Cafferty, the ruthless gangster whose sphere of influence extends well beyond the bars that the Inspector himself put him behind, discovers that Bill, his only son, has been brutally murdered, Rebus finds himself with more motivation than his duty can provide to find Billy's killer. But when the police pathologist reports that the young man was killed by professional hands, Rebus finds himself up against a force that could frighten Big Ger himself.

Ian Rankin: Mortal Causes. A John Rebus Mystery. Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 0684814978 (December, 1995), 278 p., $6.99.