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Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin

Edinburgh's own maverick cop, John Rebus, is getting older, but his colleague DS Siobhan Clarke is taking on the burden of Rebus's work, and some of his legend. The story of a murdered immigrant combines with the hunt for a missing girl, and then there's the question of the unearthed fake skeleton.

A detective stumbles on the bank, the woman
sprawled out at his feet…
Dead Redhead

Tracey Herd, Dead Redhead

Tracey Herd's Dead Redhead detects murders, assassins, and all manner of lost girls. These poems have a forensic detachment and aren't afraid to go in with the knife to discover secrets – the small human hopes behind the iconic glamour of film noir, modelling or racehorses, and settings like Ekaterinaburg or Hollywood that in their own way are just as darkly famous.

Dead Redhead by Tracey Herd

Or try… Pascale Petit, Matthew Sweeney

Pairings & synopses

	High Fidelity | Zoom!
	The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency | The Good Neighbour
	The Family Way | Newborn
	The Algebraist | Spirit Machines
	The God Of Small Things | Postcards From God
	The Night Watch | The Book Of Blood
	Fleshmarket Close | Dead Redhead
	Bridget Jones's Diary | Leaving And Leaving You
	Quite Ugly One Morning | Bad Shaman Blues
	The Shipping News | The Tree House
	Shadow Of The Wind | The Eyes
	Back When We Were Grownups | Granny Scarecrow