The #1 international bestseller from the Edgar Award-winning author, exploring the dark underbelly of Edinburgh
"A crackling crime thriller." -Philadelphia Inquirer
Inspector John Rebus has confronted Edinburgh's most hardened criminals, its bloodiest crime scenes, and its most dangerous backstreets--but nothing could prepare him for what he finds on Fleshmarket Alley.
In the city's red-light district, men go to live out their fantasies, and women have no other choice but to sell their bodies to make a buck. In its seediest clubs, refugees seeking asylum in Scotland are subjected to the whims of the most ruthless characters in the crime world--men Rebus knows all too well.
