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Violence
Some
Murder; investigation into police conduct; Edinburgh's criminal milieu
Language
Some
Moderate language; Scottish vernacular
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild; adult relationships
Substance Use
Some
Moderate; Rebus's iconic drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Strong; the way the past doesn't stay past in Rebus's Edinburgh; institutional corruption and what an old cop does when he might be implicated
What this book is about
The twenty-second Rebus novel: the body of a private detective who went missing during a case a decade ago is found in a car. Rebus was involved in that original case, putting him in an awkward position. Rankin's Rebus novels are reliably good Edinburgh procedurals, and this one uses his institutional memory — Rebus has been around long enough that the past is always catching up with him.
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