Set In Darkness: 11 (Inspector Rebus Novels) - Softcover

Rankin, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312629834 ISBN 13: 9780312629830

Publisher: Griffin, 2010

Synopsis

On the eve of the first Scottish parliament in three hundred years, Edinburgh is a city rife with political passions and expectations. Queensbury House, the home of Scotland's new rulers, falls in the middle of John Rebus' turf, keeping him busy with ceremonial tasks. That quickly changes, however, when a long-dead body is discovered in a Queensbury House fireplace, a homeless man throws himself off a bridge - leaving behind a suitcase full of cash - and an up-and-coming politician is found murdered. The links between the three deaths lead Rebus to a confrontation with one of Edinburgh's most notorious criminals, a man he thought he'd put in jail for life. Someone's going to make a lot of money out of Scotland's independence - and, as Inspector Rebus knows all too well, where there's big money at stake, darkness gathers.

Set in Darkness is another chilling and intelligent crime novel from master of the genre Ian Rankin.

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Review:

Two masked men abduct women on their way home from singles bars; a mummified corpse turns up bricked into a fireplace in one of devolved Scotland's new government buildings; a prospective New Labour candidate is battered to death; and Inspector Rebus's old antagonist Ger Cafferty is allowed home from prison to die of cancer...Ian Rankin's gloomy new crime novel has all the usual ingredients of his Rebus series--Rebus's drinking, his messy relationships with women and his inability to get on with his superiors and more ambitious equals are traits more usually associated with private eye novels than with police procedurals, but they help explain why a cop with Rebus's high clear-up rate has avoided promotion to a desk.

Everyone told him that this was a sign, that he was here because the chiefs at the Big House had plans for him. But Rebus knew better. He knew that his boss had put his name forward because he was hoping to keep Rebus out of trouble and out of his hair...And if--if--Rebus accepted without complaining and saw the assignment through, then maybe the Farmer would receive a chastened Rebus back into the fold.

The Edinburgh atmosphere--from the forced politeness of smart dinner parties to the hair-trigger violence of slum pubs--is as admirable as ever, and Rebus's capacity for working things out slowly in his own head remains as plausible as ever as a description of a particular kind of dogged intelligence. Like several books in this series, this is also an intelligent novel of the New Scots Politics--part of what makes Rebus both a successful investigator and doomed to offend the powerful is his unerring instinct for the scandalous and the corrupt. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"A beautifully written series"--"New York Times Book Review"
"A brilliant series"--"Entertainment Weekly"
"Crime fiction at its best"--"Washington Post Book World"

A beautifully written series "New York Times Book Review"

A brilliant series "Entertainment Weekly"

Crime fiction at its best "Washington Post Book World""

A beautifully written series New York Times Book Review

A brilliant series Entertainment Weekly

Crime fiction at its best Washington Post Book World

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"A beautifully written series" --New York Times Book Review

"A brilliant series" --Entertainment Weekly

"Crime fiction at its best" --Washington Post Book World

About this edition

• Publisher: Griffin
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0312629834
• ISBN 13: 9780312629830
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448