A cold case involving a missing private investigator threatens to
unearth skeletons from Rebus's past in this "must-read" mystery (Tana
French).
Former Detective John Rebus' retirement is disrupted once again when
skeletal remains are identified as a private investigator who went
missing over a decade earlier. The remains, found in a rusted car in the
East Lothian woods, not far from Edinburgh, quickly turn into a cold
case murder investigation. Rebus' old friend, Siobhan Clarke is assigned
to the case, but neither of them could have predicted what buried
secrets the investigation will uncover.
Rebus remembers the original case -- a shady land deal -- all too well.
After the investigation stalled, the family of the missing man
complained that there was a police cover-up. As Clarke and her team
investigate the cold case murder, she soon learns a different side of
her mentor, a side he would prefer to keep in the past.
A gripping story of corruption and consequences, this new novel
demonstrates that Rankin and Rebus are still at the top of their game.