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 Fleshmarket Close - Ian Rankin
 Fleshmarket Close - Ian Rankin ... thrillers, but his second-best is still more than excellent. Middle age is catching up with Rebus--he currently has no desk as a none-too-subtle hint from his superiors that he should seek retirement--but he and his friend and protegee Siobhan, who is still not his lover, race around investigating a variety of seemingly unconnected cases… The sister of a dead rape victim is missing; stolen medical skeletons turn up embedded in a concrete floor; a Kurdish journalist is brutally killed; the son of a Glasgow ganglord has moved in to the Edinburgh vice scene.Newest Review: ... but the mental side of the training ruined his soldiers mind and was offered a route out with the Lothian and Borders police. ... more ...
This is where the series of books picks Rebus up, and during the early books he still has contact with his wife and daughter. However as the series plays on, Rebus becomes a loner who is interested in only one thing - his work. Rankin often introduces characters into the series who could become Rebus' genuine friends, only for them to be killed or disappear from his life in some way - adding to his collection of 'ghosts'.
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Fleshmarket Close - Ian Rankin: The softer side of Rebus (1334 words)
by - written on 18/01/08 (Very useful, 62 readings)
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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 ... Read the complete review
Lang May Yir Lum Reek (1173 words)
by - written on 05/10/05 (Very useful, 688 readings)
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~ ~ 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) ... Read the complete review
Fleshmarket Close - Ian Rankin: Not all Black and White (902 words)
by - written on 31/01/05 (Very useful, 252 readings)
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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 ... Read the complete review
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