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Exit Music - Ian Rankin

Description: ISBN 0713999829 / Author: Ian Rankin / Genre: Crime / Thriller

Newest Review: ... of course there is a far bigger mystery behind. That's why we love these books and we're not let down here. The Book~ Exit ... more

... Music takes Rebus fans down a well-worn path. Once again we find him becoming obsessed with a case and letting it take over his life. With no concept of work/life balance he spends his days, evenings and nights chasing down leads and hunches (not to mention grudges). If he hadn't already lost touch with family and friends he would do so all over again here. Some familiar characters return, the most important of these is Siobhan Clarke, his long time junior partner, and she is joined by a number of minor characters ret...more

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Exit Music - Ian Rankin: It's been emotional (1247 words)
by - written on 22/04/09 (Very useful, 112 readings)
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Ah, let's slip into something more comfortable shall we? A new Inspector Rebus story is usually a time for celebration and the welcome return of the familiar. Through sixteen previous adventures we have come to know and love John Rebus and the opportunity to get into a new episode is the reading equivalent of slipping on a comfy fleece and watching a Bond film one more time. Exit Music is the seventeenth stop on the long journey of Edinburgh's finest and as the name suggests the curtain is soon to close on his gloriously inglorious career. But before he goes gentle into that good night there is one more case and several glaring loose ends that need ... Read the complete review

Not a good note to end on (413 words)
by - written on 28/10/07 (Useful, 35 readings)
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I have read (and loved) Ian Rankin's Rebus books for a number of years. Last year, he brought our Night Music, centred around the G8 summit in Scotland, which was very much a Rebus novel. And then this one. What happened? The length is the same (long). The setting is the same (Edinburgh). The characters are very much the same. But the FEELING is wrong. Is Ian Rankin already working on his next novel in his head and just 'bashing out' this one to end the series? Or does he really think that this is a fitting end to his fabulous, award-winning series of books? The story is fine, and worthy of Rankin's Gold-Dagger-Award style. Hard-nosed cops, convoluted ... Read the complete review

Exit Music - Ian Rankin: End Of An Era? (1012 words)
by - written on 02/10/07 (Very useful, 263 readings)
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~ ~ It’s said all good things must come to an end, but it’s with a certain sadness that I have to report the last in the John Rebus set of crime novels, “Exit Music”, by Edinburgh author Ian Rankin. ~ ~ Rankin has been a favourite author of mine ever since Rankin’s very first Rebus novel, “Knots and Crosses”. (1987) Inspector John Rebus, the irascible, grouchy Edinburgh detective started out life as a Detective Sergeant, but despite his outstanding record in nabbing the bad guys, his pathological dislike for convention and his lack of social graces (he would never lick a*se) ensured he was never going to rise up the ranks of the Edinburgh City Police, and in ... Read the complete review