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Hide and Seek (Inspector Rebus Novels)
Ian Rankin
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1997
Ian Rankin/Inspector Rebus take Hide and Seek to a new level.
I have to say that I wasn't sure what to think of this book, especially since I'm not a big fan of mystery/detective books, but I read Ian's first book in the series and enjoyed it so I thought I'd see if he could keep my interest on the second......and boy did he!!!! ...
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Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus Novels)
Ian Rankin
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1995
Mr. Hyde's Edinburgh, not McCall Smith's...
This is the first of Rankin's Edinburgh crime novels featuring detective John Rebus. Alexander McCall Smith gave Rankin a "cameo" part in his serial novel 44 Scotland Street, mentioning in his introduction that Rankin thought his portrait much "nicer" than his real ...
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Tooth and Nail (Inspector Rebus Novels)
Ian Rankin
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1996
Wolfman.
He had wanted to update Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" for modern times, Ian Rankin writes about his first Inspector Rebus novel, "Knots and Crosses" in the introduction to the British compilation "Rebus: The Early Years" (unfortunately, not ...
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Mortal Causes (Inspector Rebus Novels)
Ian Rankin
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1997
Troubles In Edinburgh
After a particularly gruesome murder is discovered during Edinburgh's Fringe Festival, Inspector John Rebus is seconded to the elite Scottish Crime Squad. The reason for this is that aspects of the murder make it appear that a terrorist group was responsible and ...
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Strip Jack
Ian Rankin
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1998
best ever Rebus?
Having grown up in Scotland I've read quite a few of these out of pure nostalgia for the olde country......this one is perhaps the best I've read so far as Rankin ditches the faux working class realism of junkies and serial killers and moves into perhaps his own (and ...
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The Black Book
Ian Rankin
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000
Vicious loan sharking and murder
This is an earlier novel by the author. I did not give it five stars because I had trouble keeping some of the characters straight as the plot moved between characters. The novel is partly a mystery, and partly deals with the love life of Inspector Rebus. When a DC ...
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The Naming of the Dead
Ian Rankin
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
MODUS IN REBUS
How you rate this Inspector Rebus story may depend to some extent on what you think of the solution to the mystery, which is obviously something a reviewer ought not to give away. On the other hand it will take you nearly 500 very enjoyable pages before you get there. ...
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Exit Music (Inspector Rebus)
Ian Rankin
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
Another wonderful book by Ian Rankin, one of his best.
I have read all of Rankin's novels and this is one of the best. I only hope that Rebus did not make his exit and there are many more novels involing this brilliant policeman.
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The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus Novels)
Ian Rankin
St. Martin's Minotaur, 1999
a very tangled story with a complex detective character
Welcome to the dark side of Edinburgh! Once again Inspector John Rebus has a job in the Scottish City. This time it seems that he is painfully, personally involved - his daughter, Sammy, is in a coma after being hit by a car. And he had been hiding a Bosnian girl made ...
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Let It Bleed (Inspector Rebus Novels)
Ian Rankin
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1998
"He swallowed the anger down and held it in his gut. It was hotter than tea, stronger than whisky."
The daughter of Edinburgh's Lord Provost is missing; a car chase of two possible kidnappers ends with the supposed perps' suicide; then another suicide occurs, seemingly unconnected. No crime there, and yet there are puzzling unexplained details, which Rebus can't get ...
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Set in Darkness: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Inspector Rebus Novels)
Ian Rankin
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001
A Book that is Dark, Brooding and Forbidding and Very Alive
Hard-drinking, hard-smoking, divorced Edinburgh cop DI John Rebus is a man who does things his way as he moves through the brooding city of Edinburgh, searching for both his own lost soul and the criminals who lurk in its dark places. DI Derek Linford, in contrast, ...
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Black and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Mystery (Inspector Rebus Novels)
Ian Rankin
St. Martin's Dead Letter, 1999
"Maybe I've just relocated my conscience" - Rebus
Taking off from the true case history of a Glasgow killer named Bible John, Rankin spins a complex (but still clear*) pageturner about a copycat murderer, dubbed Johnny Bible by the press and cops, but nicknamed the Upstart by the real Bible John, who is still alive, ...
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Resurrection Men: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Inspector Rebus Novels)
Ian Rankin
Little, Brown and Company, 2004
This is a throwback to English genre mystery books of the 60's
I think it is fitting that I am writing this just after 'Elizabeth' who wrote in her review that this book is "more a "guy type" book." That made me laugh because I was thinking this is more of a 'gal type' book and maybe that's why a lot of it left me wanting for ...
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Dead Souls: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Inspector Rebus Novels)
Ian Rankin
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2000
Rebus and Rankin in top form.
Dead Souls in number 11 in the Rebus series and for me it is one of the best.
The plot has even more than usual going with 4 or 5 stories running concurrently with the main one. What makes this even more special is that all the plots are really interesting and don't ...
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A Good Hanging
Ian Rankin
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2004
A good collection
This is a collection of 12 short stories featuring Inspector John Rebus. They tend to be quick reading, without an excessive amount of background color. I would recommend the collection for readers who like to cut to the chase, and want some occasional quick reading ...
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