The third Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of MIDNIGHT AND BLUE

'No one writes better crime novels' EVENING STANDARD

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LONDON IS CALLING.

WILL REBUS FIND THE ANSWER?

Detective Inspector John Rebus is hand-picked to help catch a serial killer down in London. The Edinburgh cop doesn't like the big city - and it doesn't seem that his new colleagues at The Met like him much either.

As the case gets its teeth into him, his only hope is to work with a psychological profiler to build a picture of the mind of a dangerous psychopath.

But the closer Rebus gets to the truth, the closer he becomes with his only ally in the capital too - which may give the killer all he needs to win this game of cat-and-mouse and close the case for good...

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PRAISE FOR THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IAN RANKIN:

'Ian Rankin is a genius'

LEE CHILD

'Rebus is one of British crime writing's greatest characters: alongside Holmes, Poirot and Morse'

DAILY MAIL

'Whatever he writes, it will be worth reading ... Rankin has redefined the genre'

GUARDIAN

'The arrival of a Rankin novel remains one of life's pleasures'

EXPRESS

'Rankin is a phenomenon'

SPECTATOR

'Worthy of Agatha Christie at her best'

SCOTSMAN

'The king of crime fiction'

SUNDAY EXPRESS

'Great fiction, full stop'

THE TIMES

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Ian Rankin's A HEART FULL OF HEADSTONES was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 10th October 2022 and w/c 1st May 2023