Knots & Crosses
'And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you...?' 'That sort of thing' is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking...
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'And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you...?'
'That sort of thing' is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking and drinking too much, his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife, is one of many policemen hunting the killer.
And then the messages begin to arrive: knotted string and matchstick crosses - taunting Rebus with pieces of a puzzle only he can solve.
The very first Rebus novel from No.1 bestselling author Ian Rankin
źródło opisu: Wydawnictwo Orion, 2005
źródło okładki: http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780752877181
Publish date: wrzesień 2005 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: Orion
Pages no: 226
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Detective,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense,
Scotland
Series: Inspector Rebus (#1)
Knots & Crosses is the first book in the Inspector John Rebus series and I wasn´t prepared just how much of a messed up character Rebus is. He is full blown drama walking on two legs. He has family problems, he is estranged from his brother, he isn´t good at his job, he is clearly haunted by somethi...
Finally trying out a popular UK police procedural. I do enjoy a good procedural. And I enjoyed this one for the most part. In some ways, John Rebus reminds me a little of my beloved Armand Gamache in that he's well-read, thoughtful, and somewhat tortured by things in his past. My problem is that ...
Yet there had to be clues. There had to be. Rebus drank his coffee and felt his head spin. He was feeling like a detective in a cheap thriller, and wished that he could turn to the last page and stop all his confusion, all the death and the madness and the spinning in his ears. After 21 novels and...
"Knots and Crosses" ended up on my TBR pile because I saw Ian Rankin being interviewed about the release of "Even Dogs In The Wild", the twentieth Rebus book. He sounded like an interesting guy, I'd enjoyed seeing John Hannah in the TV version of Rebus back in 2000, so I thought I'd go back to the s...
Ian Rankin not only tells a good story, he tells it well. Here is a quote from the first chapter of this book. "He drove quietly, hating to be back here in Fife, back where the old days had never been "good old days," where ghosts rustled in the shells of empty houses and the shutters went up every ...
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