Pasha Ivanov has been found dead on the pavement outside his luxury high-rise apartment in Moscow. It seems like a straightforward suicide, but Inspector Arkady Renko, never one to take evidence at face value, refuses to drop the case, and there is something puzzling him: a mountain of salt found in Ivanov's wardrobe.

The powerful second psychological thriller featuring Javier Falcon, the complex detective from 'The Blind Man of Seville'.

The 13th Inspector Rebus novel from No.1 bestselling author Ian Rankin

A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning, and an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari - two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vigata police headquarters.

In French mountains, more and more sheep are being found with their throats torn out. The evidence points to a wolf of unnatural size and strength. However Suzanne thinks it is a werewolf. Then she is found slaughtered in the same manner. Her friend Camille attempts to find out who is responsible and Commissaire Adamsberg is called in for help.

A man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast. Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to Karima, a house cleaner and sometime prostitute, whose son steals other school children's mid-morning snacks.