As such, the best one to start with if you plan to get involved with this series.Ī fascinating and wide-ranging story, that involves many over-world and under-world people,Īnd many issues of family loyalty and friendship and love. This book is particularly welcome in providing considerable background on Rebus' time in the army and the trainingįor the SAS. The first REBUS book: a series of murders in Edinburgh all lead to Detective John Rebus Īs always, Rebus is part of the problem as well as part of the solution to garrotings. The second FOX book: Malcolm Fox continues to investigate the investigators. To a situation when blackmail photos might be of consequence.Īnd Rebus uses diversionary tactics to get behind the scenes.Ī little more background on Rebus enriches the story. The second REBUS book: a murder of a drug-addict photographer leads John Rebus It would make meaning small talk with each other." įleshmarket Ally (2004) "Sorry, Todd, I'm rattling on, aren't I?"
but these days bolshie just means awkward or stubborn." "I'll be binning the crime kit along with everything else." The politics of Scottish Independence and of the Edinburgh police interleaveĭo they provide jobs, energy, raw materials?Īnd often well remunerated in the process - certainly lionised above their due.Īlexander Todorov had been suckled by the Westīecause he pandered to its need to see Russia as corrupt and corrosive."Įnough 'border' phrases (northern English and southern Scottish) With a supporting and/or hindering cast of Scots, English, and Russian characters What a delightful fast-paced story, with a grumpy Scottish detective in his last It's okay but none of the characters are as interesting or sympathetic as This is not a murder mystery but a book about thrills, greed, hubris, and theft. Rankin abandons Rebus and murder solving for a story of theft, greed, hubris, and menace.
The first FOX book: Malcolm Fox investigates the investigators. No! We don't meet the perp till almost the end! Yes (except the perp is a spoiled and greedy snob). Alphabetic list of Rankin books read, with reviews and quotations.
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