• Paperback
• Condition: Good
• 526 pages
• Fiction: Mystery, Crime
• Book 2/6 in the Jackson Brodie series

It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival.

People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - a near-homicidal attack which changes the lives of everyone involved: the wife of an unscrupulous property developer, a crime writer, a washed-up comedian. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a murder suspect.

As the body count mounts, each character's story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls. Everyone in the teeming Dickensian cast is looking for love or money or redemption or escape: but what each actually discovers is their own true self.