6/5/2023 0 Comments Exit music rankin![]() Tracing the poet’s last hours turns up a curry dinner with a recording engineer, who dies when his tape archives go up in flames, and an odd group of drinking companions at the posh Caledonian Hotel, including a wealthy Russian businessman and Rebus’s old nemesis Big Ger Cafferty, who controls most of Edinburgh’s slums, drugs and vice. It might have been a mugging, but Rebus doubts it: There’s too much fury in the killing, whose blood trail wends back to a car park. Siobhan Clarke, in keeping his unsolved cases open, the pair is sent off to King’s Stables Road, where a dissident Russian poet has come to an unsightly end. ![]() ![]() While he tries to interest his partner, Det. Having reached mandatory retirement age, Detective Inspector John Rebus has just ten days left before leaving Edinburgh’s Gayfield Square police station. ![]()
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