Title: Mortal Causes
Author: Ian Rankin
Rating:
4 stars out of 5Publisher: Orion
Copyright: 1994
Pages: 320
Keywords: crime, fiction
Reading period: 9–11 September, 2008
(An earlier Rebus book than The Hanging Garden or The Naming of the Dead.)
A brutally murdered man has ties to Protestant loyalist paramilitaries
in Northern Ireland.
He also happens to be the unacknowledged son of Rebus’s old nemesis,
Big Ger Cafferty, who wants revenge.
Never a team player, Rebus goes his own way, solving the case
against the backdrop of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
and a socially deprived housing scheme.