Fleshmarket Close - Ian Rankin

Another good read by Rankin.  The issues explored in this book include immigration, exploitation of illegal immigrants, deportation and deportation centres/prisons; social and legal attitudes around rape and rape culture; corrupt business and ladder climbing in both corporate and public institutions.  Rebus is, in fact, an incarnation of what it means to be human - the contradictions and conflicts in choices around good and evil, helping and not helping, acting in the personal sphere as opposed to the statistical sphere.