Ian Rankin's "Fleshmarket Close" Quiz

Answer: Kurdish refugee

The victim had no identification on him. The only clue to his identity was a family picture which was recognized by an employee of an immigration detention center. His name was Stef Yurgii; he was a Turkish Kurd who had immigrated with his family to Germany and then to Scotland. They were scheduled to be deported since it had been determined that they weren't economic immigrants.

Answer: Two skeletons under a concrete floor

The skeletons of a woman and a child turned out to be stolen medical training tools, with the baby skeleton actually being plastic (much to the embarrassment of Rebus and Clarke and the downright humiliation of the medical examiner who had called them in).

The skeletons were discovered during renovations to expand the pub, and the owner's interest in using them as a tourist lure initially led the inspectors to consider the possibility that it was a publicity stunt.

Answer: Their other daughter was missing.

DS Clarke had worked a case involving the rape of their daughter Tracy, who later committed suicide. Now their younger daughter Ishbel had disappeared, and they felt that DS Clarke would be more willing to help them find her than the local police precinct due to her close involvement with the family.

Answer: Human smuggling

One of their cases took Rebus and Clarke to an exotic dance club where they were observed by an immigration inspector who was conducting surveillance of the establishment because of its owner's suspected involvement in human smuggling. After one of the local police officers vouched for the integrity of Rebus and Clarke, they were given access to the information uncovered by the investigation, as Rebus had begun to suspect that the operation was linked to one of the other cases they were working.

Answer: Immigration detention

After a picture from the murder victim's pocket was printed in the newspaper, Rebus received a tip from an employee of the Whitemire immigration detention facility that the victim's family was being housed there. They were being held, pending deportation to Germany.

Answer: Brought toys to kids in an immigration facility

Rebus had sympathy towards the kids caught up in the immigration entanglements, and he was disturbed by the stark environment of the detention facility in which they lived. He delivered a carload of toys to the facility and later checked to make sure they had reached the intended recipients.

Answer: At a vigil at one of the investigation sites

Caro was an artist who spent her free time protesting the treatment of asylum-seekers. Their relationship seemed to be a case of opposites attracting, but we were led to believe that it would not last. After a discussion with Rebus, she protested that he didn't know her at all, to which he responded that he "can live with that".

Answer: Big Ger Cafferty

The relationship between Rebus and Cafferty was an unusual one and had led some members of the police force to suspect that Rebus was in Cafferty's pocket. Despite the voiced desire of Rebus to put Cafferty away for good, he seemed satisfied to instead use him as a source of information. Cafferty's motivation in providing the tips was self-serving; he wanted to eliminate the competition.

Answer: Called her "Shiv"

Readers of the previous Inspector Rebus novels know that Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke intensely disliked being called by the nickname "Shiv". Rebus had referred to her as Siobhan in earlier novels, but in "Fleshmarket Close", he repeatedly called her "Shiv".

Although she usually corrected people who used the nickname, she didn't do so with Rebus, something that was noted by another detective.

Answer: He had threatened to expose the human smuggling.

The victim was a reporter in his native country and was in fact a refugee due to the personal danger that his writing had generated. He didn't appear to intend to actually write the story about the smuggling operation - he just threatened to do so in an attempt to force the smugglers into getting his family released from the detention facility.

The skeletons had been used to intimidate immigrants who complained about their treatment; they were told they would meet the same fate. The missing daughter was the girlfriend of the pub owner and had voluntarily left her family to escape the shadow of her sister's death.