This is a long and quite complex novel; feels valedictory.
Rebus has now retired, Siobhan is older, and the plot involves many of the characters who have appeared in previous books (Cafferty, of course, but also Malcolm Fox, who I believe appears in one I think called The Complaints (?)).
It is a big book, mainly about a murder which took place many years ago, which is just a missing persons case until a body is discovered in the boot of a hidden car. It appears that all the participants have lied about behaviour during the original investigation; Rebus mainly to protect colleagues.
I enjoyed it a lot, but it was quite hard work at the same time, over 400 densely written pages.
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