Watchman - Ian Rankin

From my review at Ciao; What a boring story. I was brought up during the heart of the troubles in Northern Ireland, and, I try to read as many novels about the troubles as possible. So I seen this Ian Rankin book called Watchman, but decided to buy the audiobook on CD instead. I then converted it to play on PSP. It is an 8 CD audiobook, and it is narrated by Tom Cotcher. One of the most boring voices for audiobooks. I cannot stay awake to listen to one chapter, never mind finish the book. I was expecting great things from the author of Rebus, however, this is nothing like Rebus, and to be honest, nothing like the Northern ...

~ ~ Anybody who reads my reviews regularly will be aware that the mad cabbie is a HUGE fan of the Scot’s author Ian Rankin, and more specifically of his doughty and disreputable main character, Inspector Rebus, the Edinburgh copper. In fact, I only recently finished his latest Inspector Rebus novel “Fleshmarket Close”, and was feeling a wee bit down in the dumps, as having read all the other Rebus books I knew it would be a quite a while before a follow up hit the bookshelves. ~ ~ Thus it was that I happened to pick up the Rankin novel I’m reviewing here, “Watchman”, which was first released in 1988, and which for many years was much sought after (and thus ...