Bestselling author Ian Rankin joins us for an evening at Manchester's Friends Meeting House.

We are delighted to welcome crime powerhouse Ian Rankin to Manchester's Friends Meeting House, celebrating the release of The Heights.

Set in the secretive, opulent world of London's super-rich, Ian Rankin's first standalone thriller in two decades revolves around the murder of a night concierge in a luxury high-rise apartment building and group of suspects whose gilded lives come under rare scrutiny.

Ticket & Book option includes a copy of The Heights (RRP £25), available to collect at the event.

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About The Heights

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 Rankin.

A brand-new full-length novel, expanded from the previously published short story The Rise.

About the author

IAN RANKIN is the multimillion-copy worldwide bestseller of over thirty novels and creator of John Rebus. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages and have been adapted for radio, the stage and the screen. Rankin is the recipient of four Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards, including the Diamond Dagger, the UK’s most prestigious award for crime fiction. In the United States, he has won the celebrated Edgar Award and been shortlisted for the Anthony Award. In Europe, he has won Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the German Deutscher Krimipreis. He is the recipient of honorary degrees from universities across the UK, is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature, and has received an OBE for his services to literature.

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