Mortal Causes

Mortal Causes (1994) Ian Rankin

This is the sixth Inspector John Rebus book. It’s the Edinburgh Festival, and everyone is working extra shifts. Unfortunately for Rebus, on his Saturday night shift someone discovers the body of a man who was tortured and executed and it looks like it might be a sectarian/gangland murder, something that had previously avoided Scotland.

This once again pulls Rebus into an interdepartmental investigation, and although neither his current department or the department to which he has been loaned is happy about things, he discovers it does make it easier to go his own way and investigate as he wants.

Another strong entry into the series, and although a bit more gruesome than the previous book, not unrealistic and very convoluted.
Rating: 7/10

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