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Ian Rankin, Let it Bleed
The seventh Rebus novel, taking its title from the Rolling Stones album which it name checks.
The novel begins with a car chase as Rebus and Lauderdale are after the two criminals suspected of kidnapping the daughter of the Lord Provost. The car crashes, hospitalising Lauderdale and hurting Rebus. The two kidnappers throw themselves off the bridge and Rebus is determined to find out why they've committed suicide and whether they had been kidnappers. Shortly afterwards a terminally ill criminal, newly released from jail, blows his own head off with a shotgun in front of a local councillor. Rebus feels there is something wrong, and this leads him in a web of intrigues which taps into (pre-devolution) politics and development fund corruption at the highest levels. I'm surprised it's not plastered with all this is imaginary labels. Rebus is sent on leave to dissuade him from investigating, which of course is guaranteed to make him continue - assuming this wasn't their plan.
The novel brings back Gill Templar and his daughter Sammy from earlier novels - Sammy is now grown up. I note also how Rankin finds it easier to have Rankin and his girlfirends get together or split up but not be together.
The title points to the lyrics,
from "You Can't Always Get What You Want" on the Let It Bleed album.
I'm currently trying to read Black and Blue to catch up with the Radio 4 dramatization.
The seventh Rebus novel, taking its title from the Rolling Stones album which it name checks.
The novel begins with a car chase as Rebus and Lauderdale are after the two criminals suspected of kidnapping the daughter of the Lord Provost. The car crashes, hospitalising Lauderdale and hurting Rebus. The two kidnappers throw themselves off the bridge and Rebus is determined to find out why they've committed suicide and whether they had been kidnappers. Shortly afterwards a terminally ill criminal, newly released from jail, blows his own head off with a shotgun in front of a local councillor. Rebus feels there is something wrong, and this leads him in a web of intrigues which taps into (pre-devolution) politics and development fund corruption at the highest levels. I'm surprised it's not plastered with all this is imaginary labels. Rebus is sent on leave to dissuade him from investigating, which of course is guaranteed to make him continue - assuming this wasn't their plan.
The novel brings back Gill Templar and his daughter Sammy from earlier novels - Sammy is now grown up. I note also how Rankin finds it easier to have Rankin and his girlfirends get together or split up but not be together.
The title points to the lyrics,
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometime, yeah,
You just might find you get what you need!
from "You Can't Always Get What You Want" on the Let It Bleed album.
I'm currently trying to read Black and Blue to catch up with the Radio 4 dramatization.
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