“In a House of Lies” is a new noir detective novel from genre master Ian Rankin. It will lead you along Inspector Rebus’s trail as he unravels a mysterious case in Edinburgh. The novel “In a House of Lies” will teach you three things. First: everyone has something to hide. A private detective who vanished many years ago is found dead at the bottom of a forest ravine—the very ravine that the police searched along and across during their investigation—at least that’s what the case files claimed once the matter was closed. Second: everyone has their own secrets. Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke takes on a new investigation: she must sort through the countless errors of the original case. Long ago, suspicions arose about how the investigation was conducted… And now, ten years later, it’s time to understand what exactly went wrong. Third: there are no innocent people. Every officer involved in the case will be questioned. It feels as if every person—anyone connected in some way to this complicated story—has something to hide and something to lose. The trail is convoluted and tangled, but there’s one person who knows where it leads: John Rebus. The former detective can’t rest even in retirement: he’s going to roll up his sleeves and deal with his last case.