by Ian Rankin
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...