Synopses & Reviews
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.
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"[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
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Master of suspense, Ian Rankin delivers an arresting anthology of stories that showcase the author and his enigmatic inspector at their ingenious best.
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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 Author
Ian Rankin is the worldwide #1 bestselling writer of the Inspector Rebus mysteries, including Knots and Crosses, Hide and Seek, Let It Bleed, Black and Blue, Set in Darkness, Resurrection Men, A Question of Blood, The Falls and Exit Music. He has won an Edgar Award, a Gold Dagger for fiction, a Diamond Dagger for career excellence, and the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his contributions to literature. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.