Murder comes to London’s most luxurious high-rise: every resident is a suspect. The Heights: a gleaming, high-end and 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-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?  Set in the secretive, opulent world of London’s super-rich, Ian Rankins; first standalone thrilled in two decades revolves around the murder of night concierge, in a luxury high-rise apartment building and group of suspects whose gilded lives come under rare scrutiny.

Ian Rankin’s full-length novel, expanded from the previously published short story The Rise *****, 

The Heights by Ian Rankin Orion Publishing £25, 352 pages.