The Naming of the Dead - Ian Rankin

Another exploration by Rankin of the structures of bureaucratic governmental power in the modern world - inflexible, inhuman, sterile - and the links to corporate power.  Also a look at links and crossovers between the private sector and the various levels of the police.  His crimes always explore the vagaries of human emotions and psychology in opposition to the sterility of the bureaucratic world - which indulges in a different, more cold-blooded type of crime.  Similarities here to Michael Dibdin.