Twelve terrific stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus: "an outstanding creation" (Daily Telegraph). His home city of Edinburgh is not just the tartan tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban conurbation with the full range of criminals and their victims - blackmailers, peeping Toms and more than one knd of murderer.

It is a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accident and long-hidden jealousy.