When a former soldier and recluse murders two 17-year-old students at a posh Edinburgh boarding school, Inspector John Rebus immediately suspects there is more to the case than meets the eye.

"Ian Rankin's brilliant series featuring Detective John Rebus is the kind of blistering police procedural that gives the genre a good name."
--- Entertainment Weekly

"A Question of Blood confirms Mr. Rankin's place as part of the nouveau-noir pantheon."
--- New York Times