Title: Fleshmarket Close
Author: Ian Rankin
Rating:
4 stars out of 5Publisher: Orion
Copyright: 2004
Pages: 484
Keywords: crime, fiction
Reading period: 14–16 March, 2009
DI John Rebus investigates the murder of an illegal immigrant,
who had ties to asylum seekers in Edinburgh.
DS Siobhan Clarke looks into the disappearance of a teenaged girl;
soon, the rapist of the girl's sister is murdered.
Rebus and Siobhan struggle with the uglier side of life in Edinburgh,
notably, racism, latter-day slavery, and the increasing numbers of asylum seekers.
As usual, their personal lives are in a mess:
Rebus drinks too much;
Siobhan falls asleep with a tub of ice cream.
As in other Rebus books, the two investigations end up
being linked somewhat too neatly for my liking.