Black Book (Inspector Rebus 5) / Ian Rankin

Five years ago, a mysterious fire burned Edinburghs seed Central Hotel to ashes. Longforgotten and unsolved, the case reappears when a charred bodywith a bullet in its headis found amongst the ruins. Inspector John Rebus knows that his superiors would rather he let sleeping dogs lie. He knows that part of the answer lies somewhere in a cryptic black notebook. And he knows that to solve the case, hell have to peel back layer upon layer of unspeakable secrets to arrive at the truth...