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The Impossible Dead

The Impossible Dead

Author(s): Ian Rankin

Location(s): Kirkcaldy

Genre(s): Crime

Era(s): Modern back to 1980s

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In a conversation on Twitter Ian Rankin discloses why this book was set where it was: Impossible Dead was set in Kirkcaldy because owner of local restaurant paid charity to be mentioned in one of my books!

Malcolm Fox and his team are back, investigating whether fellow cops covered up for Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct, but what should be a simple job is soon complicated by a brutal murder and a weapon that should not even exist.

A trail of revelations leads Fox back to 1985, a year of desperate unrest when letter-bombs and poisonous spores were sent to government offices, and kidnappings and murders were plotted. But while the body count rises the clock starts ticking, and a dramatic turn of events sees Fox in mortal danger.

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“A cracking thriller starring Ian Rankin’s new hero Malcolm Fox” (Shari Low DAILY RECORD 2012-07-07)

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