Strip Jack
Gregor Jack has it all: young, wealthy, and charming, he's a highly respected member of Parliament, witha beautiful wife--and a closet bursting with skeletons. When he's caught in a police raid on an Edinburgh brothel, his house of cards begins to topple. Enter Detective John Rebus: he smells...
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Gregor Jack has it all: young, wealthy, and charming, he's a highly respected member of Parliament, witha beautiful wife--and a closet bursting with skeletons. When he's caught in a police raid on an Edinburgh brothel, his house of cards begins to topple. Enter Detective John Rebus: he smells a set-up. When Jack's flamboyant wife Elizabeth disappears, Rebus uncovers a full-house of orgies, drunken parties, an incestuous "Pack" of deceitful chums...and ultimately Elizabeth's badly beaten body. Now Rebus is on a new quest--to find a killer who holds all the cards.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312545239 (0312545231)
ASIN: 312545231
Publish date: February 17th 2009
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Pages no: 305
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense,
Hard Boiled,
Scotland
Series: Inspector Rebus (#4)
This is the one -- the book that finally sold me on the John Rebus series (I say "finally" as if it's been a years' long effort, not just book 4). Everything worked for me here. Rebus is trying to track down a rare book thief, and puts as much effort into that as you'd imagine most fictional detec...
bookshelves: summer-2010, published-1992, britain-scotland, mystery-thriller, books-about-books-and-book-shops, film-only, re-read, winter-20112012, series, families Read from August 07, 2010 to February 05, 2012, read count: 3 3* - Knots and Crosses (1987)4* - Tooth and Nail (1991)3* - Hide and...
3* - Knots and Crosses (1987)4* - Tooth and Nail (1991)3* - Hide and Seek (1991)3* - Strip Jack (1992)4* - A Good Hanging (1992)3* - The Black Book (1993)3* - Mortal Causes (1994)3* - Let it Bleed (1995)TR - Blood Hunt (1995)4* - Black and Blue (1997)3* - The Hanging Garden (1998)3* - Dead Souls (19...
My second Det. Insp. Rebus novel and I liked it better than the first one (Knots and Crosses). A plot involving conspiracy against a MP which gets ugly with the murder of his wife. A psycho killer set loose in Edinburg and some rare book collection stolen further complicates/enriches the plot. Ofcou...
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