Hardcover, 707 pages
English language
Published June 7, 2007 by Thorndike Press.
The Naming of the Dead
by Ian Rankin
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The leaders of the free world descend on Scotland for an international conference, and every cop in the country is needed for front-line duty...except one. John Rebus's reputation precedes him, and his bosses don't want him anywhere near Presidents Bush and Putin, which explains why he's manning an abandoned police station when a call comes in. During a preconference dinner at Edinburgh Castle, a delegate has fallen to his death. Accident, suicide, or something altogether more sinister? And is it linked to a grisly find close to the site of the gathering? Are the world's most powerful men at risk from a killer? While the government and secret services attempt to hush the whole thing up, Rebus knows he has only seventy-two hours to find the answers.
Subjects
- English Mystery & Suspense Fiction
- Fiction
- Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
- Mystery/Suspense
- Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
- Mystery & Detective - General
- Edinburgh
- Police
- Rebus, Inspector (Fictitious character)
- Scotland
- Serial murderers