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The impossible dead

The impossible dead

by Ian Rankin

MurderPolice corruptionInvestigationPolice internal investigationPolice
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About this book

"Asked to take on a simple case of police abuse, Malcolm Fox suddenly finds himself digging up a macabre death from the eighties. Little does he know that the answers he finds in that dark period of Scottish history will lead him to the highest echelons of power"--Jacket.

Themes & subjects

MurderPolice corruptionInvestigationPolice internal investigationPoliceFiction

Setting

Kirkcaldy (Scotland)ScotlandFife (Scotland)Fife

About the author

Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin

28 April 1960

Author

Ian Rankin

Pages

432

Read time

≈ 11h

Editions

12

Language

English

Publisher

Orion Publishing Group, Limited

ISBN

9780752889542

Where to buy

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