Fleshmarket Close - Ian Rankin

This is the 15th instalment in the series of books written by Ian Rankin focussing on the maverick Detective Inspector John Rebus. This is one of the best known books in the series, as it was one of the most highly acclaimed TV Rebus' to be screened. The book itself won Ian Rankin the Edgar Award in the USA for best crime novel in 2004. === The Author - _Ian Rankin_ === Born in the Kingdom of Fife (the same as Rebus), in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh and has since been employed as a grape-picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol researcher, hi-fi journalist and punk musician. His first Rebus novel, _Knots & Crosses_, was ...

~ ~ Illegal immigrants, dead illegal immigrants, Ulster Loyalist drug traders, Edinburgh gangsters, lap dancers, mysterious buried skeletons, rapists, porn merchants, and a missing Scottish teenager. These are just some of the ingredients, characters, plots and sub-plots that go to make up the latest novel, “Fleshmarket Close”, from the master Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin. ~ ~ Rankin has long been one of my favourite crime writers, and his fictional Scottish copper, Detective Inspector Rebus, one of my favourite fictional crime characters. Fleshmarket Close is the latest in a long line of successful Inspector Rebus novels, the first (Knots and Crosses) ...

Full review -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't often buy fiction in hardback: it's expensive and only the very best is reread. I do make an exception for the Inspector Rebus books by Ian Rankin though, as quite a few family and friends will read the book. Actually, that's just my rationalisation – I can't wait for the paperback edition to find out what's happening in the Rebus world. The body of an illegal immigrant is found in Knoxland, one of Edinburgh's most notorious housing schemes. There's a host of questions to be answered, ranging from the basic "who is he?" through to ...