The Heights

<p><b>MURDER COMES TO LONDON'S MOST LUXURIOUS HIGH-RISE: </b><b>AND EVERY RESIDENT IS A SUSPECT.</b><br><br><i>The Heights</i>: 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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...?<br><br><b>THE FIRST STANDALONE THRILLER IN TWO DECADES FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IAN RANKIN</b><br><br><i>A brand-new full-length novel, expanded from the previously published short story The Rise.</i> <br><br>*****<br><br><b>PRAISE FOR THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IAN RANKIN:</b><br><br> 'Ian Rankin is a genius'<br><b>LEE CHILD</b><br><br>'Great fiction, full stop'<br><b>THE TIMES</b><br><br> 'Whatever he writes, it will be worth reading ... Rankin has redefined the genre'<br><b>GUARDIAN</b><br><br> 'Rankin is a phenomenon'<br><b>SPECTATOR</b><br><br> 'Worthy of Agatha Christie at her best'<br><b>SCOTSMAN</b><br><br> 'The king of crime fiction'<br><b>SUNDAY EXPRESS</b><br><br> 'The arrival of a Rankin novel remains one of life's pleasures'<br><b>EXPRESS</b><br><br> *****</p>