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ISBN | 9780752868608 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
It's late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A dissident Russian poet has been found dead in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. By apparent coincidence a high-level delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, keen to bring business to Scotland. The politicians and bankers who run Edinburgh are determined that the case should be closed quickly and clinically. But the further they dig, the more Rebus and his colleague DS Siobhan Clarke become convinced that they are dealing with something more than a random attack - especially after a particularly nasty second killing. Meantime, a brutal and premeditated assault on local gangster 'Big Ger' Cafferty sees Rebus in the frame. Has the Inspector taken a step too far in tying up those loose ends? Only a few days shy of the end to his long, inglorious career, will Rebus even make it that far?
Review
Ian Rankin's done it again, another brilliant book and brilliant title. I was on tenter hooks from the start wondering how the last few days of John Rebus's career were going to pan out in the storyline from page one to the end. Rebus as usual seems to get everyone's back up so much so that in fact he is suspended for the last three days of his working life!
But not to be outdone he carries on in the same way he has in all the other stories we have read and goes on to do his own thing! Even to the extent of being arrested as a suspect for the attack on one of the charactors who have been mentioned in quite a few of the other novels, because the man is on life support in hospital!
Well I'm not going to spoil the ending for any of you out there! But I personally hope that DI John Rebus gets called back to help Siobhan out on other crimes which no-one seems to be able to get to the bottom of! Rhebus has been a brilliant charactor and please Ian don't stop writing your crime novels just because Rebus is supposed to retire.
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