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Awards
Dagger Awards
Edgar Awards (nominee)
Inspector John Rebus must disinter all four cases to nail just one killer. And do it while facing the glare of an internal inquiry led by a man he has just accused of taking backhanders from Glasgow's Mr Big, and with TV cameras at his back investigating a miscarriage of justice. One mistake is likely to mean an unpleasant and not particularly speedy death or, worse still,losing his job. 'With BLACK AND BLUE' Ian Rankin joins the elite of British crime writing' Marcel Berlins THE TIMES.
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