An Evening with Ian Rankin

Please note that this event starts at 12pm.

The first standalone thriller in two decades from a number one bestseller. Expanded from the short story The Rise, in this new novel, murder comes to London's most luxurious high-rise – every resident is a suspect...

The Heights: a gleaming, high-end high-rise looming over Hyde Park. Newly built from steel and smoked glass, a billionaire's playground offering sumptuous suites for the global elite.

But when a night concierge is found murdered in the lobby, the building's rarefied atmosphere is shattered, and the gilded lives within come under intense police scrutiny.

In a world designed to keep prying eyes out, where the residents are not used to being held to account, born-and-bred Londoner Detective Gillian Gish must find a way past their power, wealth and unimaginable influence.

The rules may be different at the top, but is anyone truly above the law, or could it be that the higher you rise, the further you fall?

'Ian Rankin is a genius' Lee Child

'Great fiction, full stop' The Times

'Rankin has redefined the genre' Guardian

'Rankin is a phenomenon' Spectator

Ian Rankin is the multimillion-copy worldwide bestseller of over thirty novels and creator of John Rebus. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages and have been adapted for radio, the stage and the screen.