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A Good Hanging: Short Storiesby Ian Rankin
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Twelve remarkable, gritty stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his home city of Edinburgh, as only Ian Rankin can portray it: not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims--blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It's a city like any other, a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accidents, and long-hidden jealousy, and a city in which criminal minds find it all too easy to fade into the shadows. As dedicated readers of the series well know, nobody is better equipped to delve into Edinburgh's back alleys and smoky pubs than Rebus, and no one better able to illuminate his world than Ian Rankin. Review:"Here are classic deductive puzzles....The setting, moving from the gray pile of Edinburgh Castle through the cafes and bars of trendy New Town to Dickensian tenements, is arresting in itself. A captivating collection." Connie Fletcher, Booklist Review:"12 gripping stories. The king of tartan noir puts his popular...supersleuth to work investigating arson, a ghostly vision, a converted ex-con and the 'perfect murder' in A Good Hanging's fast-paced mini-mysteries." Publishers Weekly Review:"Nothing more than 12 character studies, perhaps — but the character they're studying is probably the most interesting man in detective fiction....It's fascinating to watch [Rebus]..." Kirkus Reviews Review:"[T]here is always something disatisfying about [the short mystery]: under its limitations, the plot contrivances are more obvious and the character development skimpier....These stories are slight but enjoyable." Library Journal Synopsis:Master of suspense, Ian Rankin delivers an arresting anthology of stories that showcase the author — and his enigmatic inspector — at their ingenious best. Synopsis:Detective Inspector John Rebus appears in 12 stories set in his home city of Edinburgh, a modern metropolis with a full range of criminals — blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. About the AuthorBorn in Scotland 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. Since publishing his first Rebus novel, Knots and Crosses, in 1987, the series has become phenomenally successful, with each new installment a runaway bestseller in the United Kingdom. Ian has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. Black & Blue won the Crime Writers Association's Gold Dagger Award for best novel of the year in 1997. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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