There's a new crime lord in Edinburgh, and due to a sex trafficked Bosnian girl who develops a rapport with John Rebus, the Inspector ends up in the middle of it. Tommy Telford believes that Rebus is Big Ger Cafferty's man and while the DI has contacts in the imprisoned gangster's organization, he's a cop first and foremost.
He's also prone to over-involvement in his cases. So when Candace seems to bond with him during her arrest, he takes on her case although he's been tasked with determining whether a retired professor is actually a Nazi war criminal. Rankin ties the turf war and the war crime together in a surprising way and still manages to work in a family crisis without making it feel grafted on. Like all the Rebus novels, it's dark and probably not the best choice for dreary days but it's thoroughly engrossing.
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