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Ian Rankin
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Publisher | Orion | ||
ISBN | 9780752890708 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
For the right man, all doors are open...Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul. He is looking for something to liven up the days and perhaps give new meaning to his existence. A chance encounter at an art auction offers him the opportunity to do just that as he settles on a plot to commit a 'perfect crime'. He intends to rip-off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital - the National Gallery of Scotland. So, together with two close friends from the art world, he devises a plan to a lift some of the most valuable artwork around. But of course, the real trick is to rob the place for all its worth whilst persuading the world that no crime was ever committed. But soon after he enters the dark waters of the criminal underworld he realises that it's very easy to drown...
Review
Ian Rankin's latest book, Doors Open is a great read. But I did miss his loveable charactor Rebus who is not in this book; Why no Rebus, because he retired at the end of Ian's last book Exit Music.
This book has some old and some new charactors, we meet DC Ransome from some of the older Rebus books and also some of the unsavoury charactors, Calloway and also Cafferty. Mike Mackenzie gets caught up as we see in a crime that should have been perfect except for the twist which Ian is so good at putting into his books, when yet another new charactor does the dirty on Mackenzie.
I didn't at first want to read this book because I had been a huge fan of Rebus and did not think anything could ever touch and make me want to read a book of Ian's without him or Siobhan in it. But, I have to say that just to get me going again I got an old Rebus out the library and read two pages and then straight back into Doors Open and was unable to put it down. Ian Rankin has his own art of writing and knows how his readers will react to his books. This book is as good or if not better because of the mystery and intrique that Rankin weaves into the story - all I can say is write some more but do bring one or two of Rebus's old police station charactors back because I missed them.
Ian has the art of picking story lines that say so much about the City of Edinburgh, which has so much culture and so much going on behind the scenes. Edinburgh is one of those places when you have been there you can visulize what and where Ian is talking about. The area where Ransome (the copper) lives just up from Saughton Prison - is a place that many would not entertain - Saughton Prison to Edinburgh is like Wormwood Scrubbs to London but in reality it is probably one of the most safest places to live because the area has continuous sercurity surveillence. Ian always picks a story line related to what is going on in the city. We have had the G8 Summit at Gleneagles, the Edinburgh Festival, and The Falls all based in and around many Scottish Landmarks - Where will he take us to next?
I look forward to more of the same - Congratulations.
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