Let It Bleed: A John Rebus Mystery (Detective John Rebus Novels)

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Inspector Rebus searches for the answers to what at first seems to be a petty embezzlement case but that turns out to be a crime that reaches into the top political echelons and has left at least four people dead. 12,500 first printing.
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Detective Inspector John Rebus is not a man easily intimidated, so when political heavyweights start to lean on the dour, moralistic Edinburgh detective to stop an investigation, Rebus doggedly digs in and follows the case as it moves from embezzlement to murder and finally to conspiracy at the highest level of government.