The Heights : The First Standalone Thriller In Two Decades From The Number One Bestseller - PRE-ORDER NOW - Ian Rankin

The Heights : The First Standalone Thriller In Two Decades From The Number One Bestseller - PRE-ORDER NOW - Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin

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Published 8 October 2026

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  • Pages · 352 pages
  • Publication Date · 08/10/2026
  • Genre · Crime & mystery
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MURDER COMES TO LONDON'S MOST LUXURIOUS HIGH-RISE: AND EVERY RESIDENT IS A SUSPECT. 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. 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. 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...?THE FIRST STANDALONE THRILLER IN TWO DECADES FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IAN RANKINA brand-new full-length novel, expanded from the previously published short story The Rise. *****PRAISE FOR THE HEIGHTS:'Terrific'MICK HERRON, bestselling author of Slow Horses & The Slough House series'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough'CHRIS CHIBNALL, creator of Broadchurch and author of Death At The White Hart'Simply superb. The king is still very much at the very top of his game'ABIR MUKHERJEE, bestselling author of Hunted'A high concept whodunnit from one of the legends of crime fiction' STEVE CAVANAGH, bestselling author of the Eddie Flynn thrillersPRAISE FOR THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IAN RANKIN: 'Ian Rankin is a genius'LEE CHILD'Great fiction, full stop'THE TIMES 'Whatever he writes, it will be worth reading ... Rankin has redefined the genre'GUARDIAN '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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