num_pages: 482
description: An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. But Rebus is that most stubborn of creatures. As Rebus investigates, he must visit an asylum seekers' detention centre, deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and maybe even fall in love...Siobhan meanwhile has problems of her own. A teenager has disappeared from home and Siobhan is drawn into helping the family, which will mean travelling closer than is healthy towards the web of a convicted rapist. Then there's the small matter of the two skeletons - a woman and an infant - found buried beneath a concrete cellar floor in Fleshmarket Close. The scene begins to look like an elaborate stunt - but whose, and for what purpose? And how can it tie to the murder on the unforgiving housing-scheme known as Knoxland?
language: English
title: Fleshmarket Close
titlecomplete: Fleshmarket Close (Inspector Rebus, #15)
characters: Inspector John Rebus
genres: British Literature, Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Audiobook, Crime, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 13166
places: Edinburgh, Scotland
series: Inspector Rebus
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Premio Pepe Carvalho, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year
publisher: Orion