The Black Book

Author: Ian Rankin
ISBN: 9780752883571
Publisher: Orion
Year first published: 01 Oct 2008
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback

When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder.

Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's notebook, Rebus must piece together the most complex and confusing of jigsaws.

But not everyone wants the puzzle solved - perhaps not even Rebus himself...