HOME View All Genre

Book

Audiobook

GENRES 🌙 Dark

Mortal Causes - Ian Rankin

By Ian Rankin

Release Date: 2011-03-22

Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

4.5 (101 ratings)
Read Download
The sixth exciting novel of the “superior” (The New York Times) Inspector Rebus series.

Inspector John Rebus hates the Edinburgh Festival. He especially hates that last Saturday night. He has spent years on the police force confronting it, avoiding it, and cursing it, but most of the time he still gets caught up in it. Nevertheless, this is an honored tradition of Scotland, and a happy one at that. But amid the blaring noise created by the music, laughter, and toasts of “Slainte” as glasses of whiskey are swilled, another tradition—one older than music, happiness, and drink itself—has traveled to Edinburgh and nested itself in the medieval quarter of Mary King’s Close. There, beneath the streets of Edinburgh, Inspector Rebus finds the lifeless body of Billy Cunningham swinging from a butcher’s hook and knows that his problems have only begun.

When Big Ger Cafferty—the ruthless gangster whose sphere of influence extends well beyond the bars that the Inspector himself put him behind—discovers that Bill, his only son, has been brutally murdered, Rebus finds himself with more motivation than his duty can provide to find Billy’s killer. But when the police pathologist reports that the young man was killed by professional hands, Rebus finds himself up against a force that could frighten Big Ger himself.

Mortal Causes - Ian Rankin

By Ian Rankin

Release Date: 2011-03-22

Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

4.5 (101 ratings)
Read Download
The sixth exciting novel of the “superior” (The New York Times) Inspector Rebus series.

Inspector John Rebus hates the Edinburgh Festival. He especially hates that last Saturday night. He has spent years on the police force confronting it, avoiding it, and cursing it, but most of the time he still gets caught up in it. Nevertheless, this is an honored tradition of Scotland, and a happy one at that. But amid the blaring noise created by the music, laughter, and toasts of “Slainte” as glasses of whiskey are swilled, another tradition—one older than music, happiness, and drink itself—has traveled to Edinburgh and nested itself in the medieval quarter of Mary King’s Close. There, beneath the streets of Edinburgh, Inspector Rebus finds the lifeless body of Billy Cunningham swinging from a butcher’s hook and knows that his problems have only begun.

When Big Ger Cafferty—the ruthless gangster whose sphere of influence extends well beyond the bars that the Inspector himself put him behind—discovers that Bill, his only son, has been brutally murdered, Rebus finds himself with more motivation than his duty can provide to find Billy’s killer. But when the police pathologist reports that the young man was killed by professional hands, Rebus finds himself up against a force that could frighten Big Ger himself.

More by Ian Rankin

The Complaints

Standing in Another Man's Grave

Resurrection Men

Rather Be the Devil

Saints of the Shadow Bible

Even Dogs in the Wild

In a House of Lies

Hide and Seek

A Song for the Dark Times

The Black Book

The Impossible Dead

A Question of Blood

Exit Music

Fleshmarket Alley

Mortal Causes

A Heart Full of Headstones

Let It Bleed

The Naming of the Dead

Midnight and Blue

The Beat Goes On

Watchman

Doors Open

Witch Hunt

Bleeding Hearts

The Dark Remains

The Dark Remains

Knots and Crosses

Forensic Psychology For Dummies

Blood Hunt

Bookshop Mysteries

The Travelling Companion

Strip Jack

Westwind

A Good Hanging

Tooth and Nail

The Falls

Set in Darkness

Meet and Greet

In the Nick of Time

Dead Souls

The Hanging Garden

The Flood

A Collection of Inspector Rebus Novels

Rebus: Long Shadows

John Rebus

The Heights

Daggers Drawn

Fleshmarket Close

Di noir in noir

Nudos y cruces

Related Articles