by Ian Rankin
Good read!I'm not very used to audiobooks, so it took a while to get used to, but I think the narrator did a great job reading it.Interesting twist as the crime-solver is actually the assassin! Worth the read if you like crime-solving stories!
Good read!I'm not very used to audiobooks, so it took a while to get used to, but I think the narrator did a great job reading it.Interesting twist as the crime-solver is actually the assassin! Worth the read if you like crime-solving stories!
Unusual premise with the 'hero' as a contract murderer. Interesting idea but didn't work well for me as it is difficult to empathise with someone who kills for a living. I can usually find some redeeming features in people but I'm not sure I could find anything in common with someone with such an am...
Michael Weston is a hired killer who made one, unfortunately fatal, mistake in his otherwise very “successful” career.When the novel starts he is in London where his assignment is to shoot a TV reporter, whose clothes have been described to him in amazing detail, when she exits a hotel. His shot, st...
Not nearly as good as his Rebus novels. It was an easy read, pretty enjoyable, a reasonably surprising ending and I liked the fact he made an assassin the main (sympathetic) protagonist. But overall it didn't grip, too complex with unrealistic characters. ,
Oh, the blessings of being an author with too much time on his hands. I can just picture Ian Rankin sitting in the house (farm? cottage?) he and his wife bought in rural Dordogne, having whizzed through the manuscript for yet another increasingly well-written John Rebus novel and – having left behin...
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