Fleshmarket Close - Plot Summary

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; skeletons turn up embedded in a concrete floor; a Kurdish journalist is brutally murdered; and the son of a Glasgow 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 on Dungavel).

Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series
Novels
  • Knots and Crosses
  • Hide and Seek
  • Tooth and Nail
  • Strip Jack
  • The Black Book
  • Mortal Causes
  • Let it Bleed
  • Black and Blue
  • The Hanging Garden
  • Dead Souls
  • Set in Darkness
  • The Falls
  • Resurrection Men
  • A Question of Blood
  • Fleshmarket Close
  • The Naming of the Dead
  • Exit Music
Characters
  • Detective Inspector John Rebus
  • List of characters from the Inspector Rebus series
Works by Ian Rankin
Novels
  • The Flood (1986)
  • Knots and Crosses (1987)
  • Watchman (1988)
  • Westwind (1990)
  • Hide and Seek (1991)
  • Tooth and Nail (1992)
  • Strip Jack (1992)
  • The Black Book (1993)
  • Witch Hunt (1993)
  • Mortal Causes (1994)
  • Bleeding Hearts (1994)
  • Let it Bleed (1995)
  • Blood Hunt (1995)
  • Black and Blue (1997)
  • The Hanging Garden (1998)
  • Dead Souls (1999)
  • Set in Darkness (2000)
  • The Falls (2001)
  • Resurrection Men (2002)
  • Fleshmarket Close (2003)
  • A Question of Blood (2004)
  • The Naming of the Dead (2006)
  • Exit Music (2007)
  • Doors Open (2008)
  • A Cool Head (2009, Quick Reads)
  • The Complaints (2009)
  • The Impossible Dead (2011)
Short story collections
  • A Good Hanging and Other Stories (1992)
  • Beggars Banquet (2002)
Non-fiction
  • Rebus's Scotland: A Personal Journey (2005)
  • Jackie Leven Said (2005, With Jackie Leven)
Graphic novels
  • Dark Entries (2009)
Short stories
  • An Afternoon (1984)
  • Voyeurism (1985)
  • Colony (1986)
  • Trip Trap (1992)
  • Marked For Death (1992)
  • Well Shot (1993)
  • Someone Got to Eddie (1994)
  • A Deep Hole (1994)
  • Adventures in Babysitting (1995)
  • Natural Selection (1996)
  • Auld Lang Syne (1997)
  • Principles of Accounts (1997)
  • Death is Not the End (1998)
  • The Hanged Man (2000)
  • Saint Nicked (2003)
  • Soft Spot (2005)
  • Not Just Another Saturday (2005)
  • Sinner: Justified (2006)
Related articles
  • Inspector Rebus
  • Quick Reads
  • Jackie Leven
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Gold Dagger

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