The Impossible Dead Av Ian Rankin

<p>Malcolm Fox returns in the stunning second novel in Ian Rankin''s series... <b>''</b><b>Criminally good'' </b>WOMAN & HOME<br><br><b>From the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES</b><b>.</b><br><br><b>''Excitingly gripping storytelling'' THE TIMES</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.</p>