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.



The Heights is crime-thriller writing at its finest – topical, thought-provoking and eye-opening – and proves why Ian Rankin remains one of our greatest social commentators in British fiction. This is a novel of two Londons – one for the normal everyday people, and one for the global super-rich elites. It speaks to the global picture of stark and growing inequalities across many cities.

Praise for Sir Ian Rankin:

‘Rankin is a phenomenon’
SPECTATOR

‘Worthy of Agatha Christie at her best’
SCOTSMAN

‘The king of crime fiction’
SUNDAY EXPRESS

‘The arrival of a Rankin novel remains one of life’s pleasures’
EXPRESS

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