{"title": "Mortal Causes", "covers": [1006864, 184331, 498887, 1406935, 6298783, 10246004], "key": "/works/OL483724W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL30266A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Inspector Rebus (Fictitious character)", "Fiction", "Police", "Rebus, inspector (fictitious character), fiction", "Scotland, fiction", "Edinburgh (scotland), fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional", "Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural", "Police in fiction", "Detective and mystery stories"], "subject_places": ["Edinburgh", "Scotland", "Edinburgh (Scotland)"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Detective and mystery stories. It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing ... A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving with tourists is almost unthinkable. When the victim turns out to be the son of a notorious gangster, Rebus realises he is sitting atop a volcano of mayhem - and it's just about to erupt."}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-08T03:17:08.374071"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-05T17:55:44.791146"}}