Creating Rebus

Edinburgh’s Favourite Detective

So you think you know Edinburgh?

There is more to Edinburgh than it’s history, architecture and summer festivals. Scratch the surface and you will find its dark side – tales of witchcraft, ghosts, murder, warfare and death – as relevant today (though not quite the body count) as during the sixteenth century when it first became Scotland’s capital. Still heavily residential and somewhat claustrophobic, Edinburgh is a ‘city the size of a town that thinks like a village’ – everyone knows your business; it’s the ideal backdrop for a detective novel.

‘He couldn’t see himself leaving Edinburgh. It was the oxygen in his bloodstream, but still with mysteries to be explored. He’d lived there for as long as he’d been a cop. The two – job and city – becoming intertwined ever coming near to completion. Blood-stained past mingling with blood-stained present; Covenanters and commerce; a city of banking and brothels, virtue and vitriol… Underworld meeting overworld’
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