Nom de Code Witch
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782253090601 (2253090603)
Publish date: May 1st 2004
Publisher: Livre de Poche
Pages no: 578
Edition language: French
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mystery,
Detective,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense
Originally put out under the pseudonym, Jack Harvey, Witch Hunt is an early novel from Rankin before the Rebus series took off so effectively. A tightly-plotted thriller, it's the story of the hunt for a female assassin. The characters are drawn in bold strokes and the writing is crisp, moving at a ...
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...