The #1 international bestseller from the Edgar Award-winning author, exploring the dark underbelly of Edinburgh

“A crackling crime thriller.” —Philadelphia Inquirer

Inspector John Rebus has confronted Edinburgh’s most hardened criminals, its bloodiest crime scenes, and its most dangerous backstreets––but nothing could prepare him for what he finds on Fleshmarket Alley.

In the city’s red-light district, men go to live out their fantasies, and women have no other choice but to sell their bodies to make a buck. In its seediest clubs, refugees seeking asylum in Scotland are subjected to the whims of the most ruthless characters in the crime world––men Rebus knows all too well.