Fleshmarket close : Ian Rankin

An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme - a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems - his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. Then there's the small matter of the two skeletons, a woman and an infant, found buried beneath a concrete cellar floor in Fleshmarket Close