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The writing is crisp, the plotting is tight, and the main character seems more fully realized here than in any of the previous books, and none of them were half-bad either.
as Rebus, literally going over an edge (a cliff, in fact): the book begins with Jim Margulies' death, an apparent suicide.
The story he gets is sheer rubbish, since Oakes is an arch-manipulator who is using Stevens as a smokescreen. Oh and what on earth does the mass murderer deported from the US to Edinburgh have to do with all this? And then a fragment of Scotland's criminal history is repatriated at the end of a life sentence for murder. After recently visiting the Edinburgh of Isabel Dalhousie in "The Careful Use of Compliments", I decided to linger a while.
There's also some strong action -- some we see as it happens, but most we hear about after the fact (years or days alter).
p>Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. Rebus finds himself on a treacherous precipice both professionally and personally, dealing not only with the death of a long-time friend and colleague, Jack Morton, but also disturbing cases both past and present.
I just happened to end up with a second hand copy of Dead Souls first, following a friend expert in the genre recommended Rankin - afterwards discovering that a few readers think this one doesn't meet his usual standards. Malcolm Fox proves a worthy successor to John Rebus in Rankin’s satisfyingly layered second novel featuring the Edinburgh Internal Affairs cop (after The Complaints). Dead Souls was written in 1999 and depicts a John Rebus who is increasingly feeling dead inside and wondering if he should continue as a police officer.A contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts, on Channel 4 in 2002. uk/landing-page/orion/orion-company-information/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Orion Publishing Group Limited. He is also reliving his past after an old girlfriend asks him to investigate her missing son Damon’s disappearance.
At the outset, Rebus, who's been drinking too much, endures frequent visitations from his recently deceased comrade-in-arms, Jack Morton, and suffers helplessly as his daughter struggles to recover from a hit-and-run accident that's left her paralyzed. In the beginning of the book he is part of a stakeout of the Edinburgh zoo trying to find the person who is poisoning the animals. a pedophile is now living in the community, rousing the residents to violence; a fellow officer has committed suicide for no apparent reason; and Rebus's former girlfriend's son is missing. Rankin pulls this off by drawing out his characters, from the pathetic Darren Rough to the vicious and manipulative Carry Oates, whose mind games will make your skin crawl.Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children. He'd planted himself on benches and against walls, wiping his brow even though Edinburgh's early spring was a blood relative of midwinter.
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