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

'Britain's finest detective novelist' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

'[Rebus] is a superbly drawn character; matched by the edgy authenticity of the Scottish locale and dialogue' SUNDAY TIMES

'Very ambitious and very confident with acute observation of the not so bonny side of Scotland' DAILY TELEGRAPH

Other titles by the author - A Good Hanging;   Tit for Tat;   The Dean Curse;   The Gentlemen's Club ;  Monstrous Trumpet;   Not Provan; Seeing Things;   Playback;   Auld Lang Syne;   Sunday;   Being Frank.

James Macpherson played DCI Jardine in Taggart for sixteen years, and has acted on stage in plays as diverse as The Taming of the Shrew and works by Hamish Wilson. He has presented a regular books program me for Radio Scotland - for which he has interviewed Ian Rankin. He won a Gold Award for his reading of Strip Jack at the Spoken Word Awards 2004. He lives in Glasgow.