- Fleshmarket Close
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name = Fleshmarket Close
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author =Ian Rankin
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country =Scotland
language = English
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genre =Detective fiction
publisher =Orion Books
release_date = 2004
media_type = Print (Hardback &Paperback )
pages = 440 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-7528-5896-3
preceded_by =A Question of Blood
followed_by =The Naming of the Dead "Fleshmarket Close" is a 2004
crime novel byIan Rankin , and is named after a real close off Edinburgh'sCockburn Street . It is the fifteenth of theInspector Rebus novels. It was released in the USA under the title "Fleshmarket Alley". It was the second episode in the second Rebus television series starringKen Stott , airing in 2006.Plot summary
Detective Inspector John Rebus has no desk to work from, as a hint from his superiors that he should consider retirement, but he and his protegee Siobhan Clarke are still investigating some seemingly unconnected cases. The sister of a dead rape victim is missing; stolen medical skeletons turn up embedded in a concrete floor; aKurd ish journalist is brutally murdered; and the son of aGlasgow gangster has moved into the Edinburgh vice scene.The book uses two new settings; a sink estate divided between racist thugs and refugees (based on
Wester Hailes ), and a small town whose economy is dominated by an internment camp for asylum-seekers (based onDungavel ).
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