Rating: 5/5
Review:
Another excellent Rebus novel
I'll just add my voice to the chorus of praise for this instalment of the Rebus saga. Neither Rankin nor Rebus has lost any of their brilliance, even though Rebus is no longer a serving police officer but id working as a civilian for a Cold Case Unit. All the old fire, wit and complex but clear plotting are there. So, too, is Rankin's brilliance at creating believable characters, utterly convincing dialogue and a superb sense of place - this time often in the isolated rural parts of Scotland around Inverness and Pitlochry.
This is, as always with Rankin, a great read with shady moral issues well to the fore. Rebus is still his old, cantankerous, alcohol-soaked, flawed self (thank heavens!). It's good to have Siobhan Clarke back in my life, and the whole thing was a real pleasure. It has the subversive appeal to make me keep reading well after I should have stopped and gone to sleep and, if a Rebus novel needs another recommendation, I can recommend it very warmly. It's well up to standard, which when talking about Ian Rankin is saying a lot.
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