A Good Hanging (Inspector John Rebus Series)

A Good Hanging contains twelve remarkable, gritty short stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his home city of Edinburgh, as only Ian Rankin can portray it.

Not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims--blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It's a city like any other, a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accidents, and long-hidden jealousy, and...