by Ian Rankin
Rebus had lost count of the number of cases he’d worked, cases often as complex as this one, requiring interview after interview, statement after statement. He thought of the material in the boxes, now being pared over by those around him--paperwork generated in order to show effort rather than with...
Book #18, in the Inspector Rebus seriesAfter five years into retirement Rebus is back only to find himself in trouble, what else is new? We should have known better to think Rankin would have put his best protagonist to pasture. He is just too good a character to have done so.Still his old self, dri...
I love a good "play on words" and the book's title is a play on words by the story's main character John Rebus. I love rascally, rough-around-the-edges Rebus. In this book he is recently retired from the police department (and I'm thrilled he still has a role to play). He notices the anomaly in the ...
Read in January, 2012 oh look - my original review on this is not anywhere to be found - and I had a gazillion 'likes' on it too!GONE, and it must have gone before I transferred my records to Booklikes because there is no record of it there.Fuck you Goodreads!So, trying to reconstruct...The title ...
The review for this was lost by grrrrrramazon, I've only just found out and I'm miffed.
What can I say..easy to read, a detective I love from the books and tv series..just wish it wasn't over yet..
What can I say..easy to read, a detective I love from the books and tv series..just wish it wasn't over yet..
A weaker ending--but until the last fifty or so pages, an unmitigated pleasure. (And counting those last fifty or so pages, a mitigated pleasure.). Rebus returns, and I'm reminded that this is the one detective series that I've yet to fade on. Normally, I get the hang of the writer's style, her pl...
This is not Detective Inspector Rebus, rogue cop, picking up where he left off; this is Mr John Rebus, civilian. There is life in the old dog yet…The shift in the dynamic between Clarke and Rebus (Clarke is the boss now) is one of the most compelling aspects of the book and Rebus biting his tongue ...
Fantastic...
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