Resurrection Men A Question of Blood Fleshmarket Close The Naming of the Dead Exit Music

Standing in Another Man’s Grave Saints of the Shadow Bible Even Dogs in the Wild Rather Be the Devil
In a House of Lies

Other Novels

The Flood

Watchman
Doors Open

Writing as Jack Harvey

Witch Hunt

Bleeding Hearts
Blood Hunt

Short Stories

A Good Hanging and Other Stories Beggars Banquet
The Beat Goes On

Plays

Dark Road

Rebus: Long Shadows

Copyright

First published in Great Britain in 1990 by Barrie & Jenkins Ltd.,
This edition published in 2019 by Orion Fiction,
an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd.,
Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment
London EC4Y 0DZ

An Hachette UK Company

Copyright © John Rebus Ltd. 1990, 2019
Introduction Copyright © John Rebus Ltd. 2019

The moral right of Ian Rankin to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN (eBook) 978 1 4091 9607 5