Fleshmarket Close

Fleshmarket Close
First edition
AuthorIan Rankin
LanguageEnglish
SeriesInspector Rebus
GenreDetective fiction
PublisherOrion Books
Publication date
2004
Publication placeScotland
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages399 pp
ISBN0-7528-5112-8
OCLC57380705
Preceded byA Question of Blood 
Followed byThe Naming of the Dead 

Fleshmarket Close is a 2004 crime novel by Ian Rankin, and is named after a real close in Edinburgh between the High Street and Market Street, crossing Cockburn Street. It is the fifteenth of the Inspector Rebus novels. "Fleshmarket" is the Scots term for butcher's market. It was released in the US under the title Fleshmarket Alley. The novel was the basis for the second episode in the second Rebus television series starring Ken Stott which was aired in 2006.