Mortal Causes

Underneath the cobbled streets of Edinburgh's old Town are medieval stone cellars where a man could scream and never be heard. In mortal Causes, the tortured body of a young man is found hanging from a butcher's hook in one of these underground rooms. The tattoo on his wrist and a cryptic inscription scratched in the dirt suggest to Inspector John Rebus that this was an execution, but what man or men carried it out?

• Author
• Ian Rankin

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 278

• Series
• Inspector Rebus

• Publisher
• St. Martin's Paperbacks

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-312-96094-0

• EAN
• 9780312960940

• Characters
• Inspector John Rebus

• Settings
• Edinburgh, Scotland

• Genres
• crime, mystery, fiction, scotland, thriller, detective, police, novels

• Release date
• 1997