Written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads. When Gravy's best friend turns up with a bullet in his chest, he asks Gravy to hide a few things for him, namely a gun, a bloody balaclava and a bag stuffed with money. But there are people willing to kill to get their hands on these things. 'Rankin is without doubt Britain's best crime novelist' "Express"

"My dad used to say to me, 'Try to keep a cool head and a warm heart'. At least I think it was my dad. I don't really remember him."
Gravy worked in the graveyard - hence the name. He was having a normal day until his friend Benjy turned up in a car Gravy didn't recognise. Benjy had a bullet hole in his chest, but lived just long enough to ask Gravy to hide him and look after his gun. Gravy had looked after things for Benjy before, but never a gun. When Gravy looked in the car he found blood, a balaclava and a bag stuffed with money. Gravy's not too bright but he wants to help his friend.
So Gravy finds himself caught up in the middle of a robbery gone wrong, a woman who witnessed a murder, and some very unpleasant men who will do anything to get back the money Benjy stole...

Ian Rankin: Ian Rankin gilt als "der führende Krimiautor Großbritanniens" (Times Literary Supplement). Er wurde 1960 im schottischen Fife geboren, lebte in Edinburgh und London, bevor er mit seiner Familie für sechs Jahre nach Südfrankreich zog. Sein erster Roman erschien 1986 und wurde sogleich von der Kritik gefeiert. Der internationale Durchbruch gelang Ian Rankin schließlich mit seinem melancholischen Serienhelden John Rebus, der mittlerweile aus den britischen Bestsellerlisten nicht mehr wegzudenken ist. Rankin wurde bereits mit dem begehrten Golden Dagger Award der Crime Writers Association of America ausgezeichnet, für den Edgar Allan Poe Award nominiert, zum Hawthornden Fellow gewählt und mit dem Chandler-Fulbright Award geehrt.