Exit Music (A Rebus Novel) - Softcover

Rankin, Ian

4.12

17,115 ratings by Goodreads

9780752888194: Exit Music (A Rebus Novel)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752888196 ISBN 13: 9780752888194

Publisher: Orion, 2007

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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?

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Review:

"* 'Rankin has an unparalleled ability to draw in the reader and make us feel every knock and setback in Inspector Rebus's red-raw life. Rarely has that talent been better displayed than in EXIT MUSIC which sees the flawed but redeemingly honest central character staggering towards the finishing line of an inglorious career that has utterly defined his life' Scotland on Sunday. * 'Brace yourself for a stoater of a cliffhanger ending' Sunday Telegraph. * 'Britain's No.1 crime writer' Daily Mirror."

Book Description:

A brilliant Rebus novel from the master of British crime.

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