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 ...
One of Rankin's first books, and to be honest, it reads like it's from a young author. But there's something so electric and headlong about it, I loved it. The edition I read was published in conjunction with the book's 20th anniversary, with a foreword by Rankin talking about who he was at the ti...
I did finish this and it passed quickly--but then I do enjoy stories set in Britain by British authors, so this does bias me towards this serial killer police procedural set in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the setting was evocatively rendered. The style wasn't strong however--the author can't hold a poi...
I haven't read any of Ian Rankin's Rebus books for a few years so i've decided to start from the beginning and read all in order.The book starts with Rebus visiting his fathers grave on the anniversary of his death followed by a visit to brother Michael, a successful hypnotist, hugely different life...
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