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Waif Goodbye

Tooth and Nail (Inspector Rebus #3) by Ian Rankin

February 5, 2022 by Zirza Leave a Comment

London, early 1990s. Women are being attacked on the streets; their throats are slit, they’re stabbed in an unfortunate place and a bite mark is left on their stomachs. The first attack happens on Wolf street and thus the press, with their neverending creativity, dub him the Wolfman. Inspector John Rebus – lapsed Christian, alcoholic in denial, still straddling the line between ‘difficult person’ and ‘asshole’ – is called down to aid the investigation, but by whom? And why?  This is a curiously chaotic novel […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: a universe of no women, crime, Ian Rankin, Inspector Rebus, London, serial killers

Zirza's CBR14 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: a universe of no women, crime, Ian Rankin, Inspector Rebus, London, serial killers ·
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Peekaboo

Hide and Seek (Inspector Rebus #2) by Ian Rankin

February 2, 2022 by Zirza 2 Comments

Somewhere deep in the slums of Edinburgh the body of a man is found. All evidence points towards an overdoses, except for one: the man’s body is elaborately staged, with the lower half of his body wrapped in plastic and his arms spread out as if he’s been crucified. A pentagram has been drawn on the wall and candles have been staged around the victim. Inspector John Rebus has been called in to investigate the murder, but finds the whole thing perplexing. Who staged the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: crime, edinburgh, Ian Rankin, Inspector Rebus, thriller

Zirza's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: crime, edinburgh, Ian Rankin, Inspector Rebus, thriller ·
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It’s Set in Scotland. Of Course it’s Bleak.

Knots and Crosses (Inspecor Rebus #1) by Ian Rankin

January 26, 2022 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Edinburgh, 1986. A number of young girls disappear. They’re abducted seemingly randomly, strangled and their corpses abandoned. All of Edinburgh’s police force is on top of it and so is John Rebus, a chain smoking, hard drinking former marine who now works as a burnt-out office drone for Edinburgh’s constabulary. It’s not that he doesn’t care, but the work he does is monotonous and neverending, and he’s far away from the action – at least, he thinks so. But someone keeps sending him letters, letters […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: child abuse, crime, Ian Rankin, Inspector Rebus, Knots and Crosses, scotland, thriller

Zirza's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: child abuse, crime, Ian Rankin, Inspector Rebus, Knots and Crosses, scotland, thriller ·
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Reading these books is really starting to stress me out.

A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin

February 5, 2021 by scootsa1000 Leave a Comment

The John Rebus series has been one of my constant reading companions for the past 14 years. Ever since I watched Anthony Bourdain visit a local Edinburgh chip shop with Ian Rankin (maybe on No Reservations?), I’ve diligently read every word I could find about former detective John Rebus and his little coterie of friends solving (and sometimes causing) crimes in Edinburgh. This latest book is the 24th full-length Rebus story. John Rebus is no longer the rogue detective he was at the start of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: a song for the dark times, CBR13, Ian Rankin, John Rebus, Scootsa1000

scootsa1000's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: a song for the dark times, CBR13, Ian Rankin, John Rebus, Scootsa1000 ·
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Dangerous Games

Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin

January 18, 2021 by jeverett15 2 Comments

Nearly four years after reading the first novel in the Rebus series I have finally returned to read the second. This puts me in fine form to finish the series sometime in the 22nd century. This installment finds Detective Inspector John Rebus investigating a death that everyone else would be fine just writing off as another drug overdose. After warning his friend Tracy to hide Ronnie McGrath is found dead on the floor of the decrepit old building he’s been squatting in. There are candles […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Ian Rankin

jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Ian Rankin ·
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Inspector Rebus goes to London

Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin

December 20, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

I’m a big fan of Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series.  His novels hit all my detective novel sweet spots- good writing, a good mystery and the location as its own character. This was an old one (published in 1994!) but it fell fortuitously into my hands while I was on a trip to the UK earlier this month. Unlike most of the other Rebus novels I’ve read, Scotland is not the setting for this one- it has Rebus on loan to a London police precinct, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #Rebus, cbr11, detective, Ian Rankin, Tooth & Nail

Wanderlustful's CBR11 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #Rebus, cbr11, detective, Ian Rankin, Tooth & Nail ·
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