Conduct once tolerated is being called out, previous actions reinterpreted. Rebus won’t go down without a fight, but the goalposts have shifted. So he puts Rebus in the dock, but to atone for whose sins exactly? As stated in The Guardian recently, he believes that there are “big questions” for writers of procedurals: “in the current state of the world, how can you write about a police officer and make them the goody, when we look around us and see that so often the police are not goodies?” Nevertheless, Rankin’s primary focus is clear. The plot is complicated, with a dizzying array of characters vying for our attention. And there’s Edinburgh, the series’ other lead character, as grizzled and grimy as you’d want it to be. In addition, with Cafferty weakened, and Darryl Christie in jail, a new crop of organised criminals is filling the vacuum, taking advantage of opportunities provided by lockdown to explore new business models. While Clarke is motivated by a strong sense of justice and, like her alter-ego Rebus, is incapable of leaving the job behind at the end of the day, Fox is more political, with his eye on advancement and how events will play out at Police Scotland HQ. Both strands connect to the notorious Tynecastle Station. Simultaneously, in intersecting storylines, Siobhan Clarke pursues a domestic violence case involving former policeman Francis Haggard, and Malcolm Fox, previously of The Complaints, continues his quest to root out dirty cops. The reader doesn’t buy that story, and neither does Rebus, but he takes the job anyway. Cafferty asks Rebus to track down a former associate, to make amends for past wrongs supposedly. After an excursion to Scotland’s rural north coast in 2020’s A Song For The Dark Times, this novel sees Rebus back on the streets of Edinburgh in close combat with old adversary, Big Ger Cafferty, housebound and confined to a wheelchair but still capable of inflicting grievous harm. The reader can’t help joining longtime former workmate and best friend Siobhan Clarke in recalling him as he once was.įear not, there’s life in the old dog yet. As a result, these later novels have an elegiac, bittersweet quality. But his light is fading and his health is failing. In time, we discover just how bad his recent decisions have been.įrom his first outing in 1987 with Knots and Crosses, and especially from the breakthrough Black and Blue in 1997, Rebus has been crime fiction’s North Star. A new investigation threatens to unearth skeletons from Rebus' past in this "must-read" (Tana French) mystery.It reads like relief, and no wonder. Rebus' retirement is disrupted once again when skeletal remains are identified as a private investigator who went missing more than a decade earlier. Ian Rankin Illustration by Jillian Tamaki. The remains, found in a rusted car in the East Lothian woods, not far from Edinburgh, quickly turn into a cold-case murder investigation. The Last Honest Horse Thief (By:Michael Koryta) (2018) The Book Case (By:Nelson DeMille) (2012). The crime writer, whose new Rebus novel is In a House of Lies, is giving his archives to the National Library of Scotland: There. For longtime Rebus fans, it is an opportunity to follow him as he explores a subplot from his most recent outing, Dead Souls. Rebus’s Scotland is the perfect gift for anyone interested in Scotland or in the novels of Ian Rankin. Ian Rankin Releases 2021, 2022 & Beyond Discover the growing list of Ian Rankin new releases.Weve compiled the must-have list of new and upcoming Ian Rankin 2021/2022 books. Rebus' old friend Siobhan Clarke is assigned to the case, but neither of them could have predicted what buried secrets the investigation will uncover. If youre searching for Ian Rankin new books 2021/2022, then youre in luck. Youll find recent and next Ian Rankin books below. In A House of Lies by Ian Rankin Orion (4 October) Rebus just keeps rolling on: the retired DI returns to help a former colleague solve a case with its roots in the past. Rebus remembers the original case - a shady land deal - all too well. After the investigation stalled, the family of the missing man complained that there was a police cover-up. Unlike many other crime writers, who switch regularly between series and stand-alone novels, Ian Rankin has stuck with John Rebus for most of his career. MOSTRECENT IAN RANKIN NOVEL 2018 SERIESĪs Clarke and her team investigate the cold-case murder, she soon learns a different side of her mentor, a side he would prefer to keep in the past.Ī gripping story of corruption and consequences, this new novel demonstrates that Rankin and Rebus are still at the top of their game.
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