A Good Hanging by Ian Rankin

Twelve terrific stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus : 'an outstanding creation' (Daily Telegraph ).His home city of Edinburgh is not just the tartan tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures , but a modern urban conurbation with the full range of criminals and their victims - blackmailers , peeping Toms , and more than one kind of murderer.It is a city that gives birth to crimes of passion , ACCIDENT AND LONG - HIDDEN JEALOUSY.