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LIV: Ian Rankin, Set in Darkness (2000)
A distinct sense of Scottish history coming in here, as the building of a new Scottish parliament is the background. Here a body is found behind a blocked off fireplace and a prospective MSP is killed. I confess this has blurred - as have most of the ones I've read this month - but good none the less.
LV: Ian Rankin, The Falls (2001)
Here a Scottish mystery is drawn on - a series of small coffins which matched the number of Burke and Hare bodies. A student vanishes, and as her parents are wealthy bankers, Rebus has to find her or her murderers quickly. If I recollect correctly, DS Siobhan Clarke is meanwhile following clues in an online game, hoping to find a murderer. This novel really sees the noticeable rise of Clarke as a character is league with and equivalent to Rebus. Part of that strange habit of the author keeping their main character out of the spotlight (recall have much Holmes is absent from the Conan Doyle novels).
LVI: Ian Rankin, Resurrection Men (2002)
These were of course body-snatchers, but here it is a group of police officers sent for re-education after being singled out as mavericks. Rebus joins them having lost his temper against DCI Templer. Of course, there's more to that than meets the eye, and Rebus is solving a crime whilst relearning tem work. Clarke, more and more like Rebus, has a case which requires the knowledge of Big Ger Cafferty, and she needs Rebus as go between.
LVII: Ben Nicholson (2008)
Exhibition catalogue - to be returned to.
LVIII: Ian Rankin, A Question of Blood (2003)
Two pupils are shot at a private school, and the ex-army gunman has killed himself. Rebus wants to know why. Meanwhile a criminal who has been stalking Clarke has been found burned to death, and Rebus, with burnt and bandaged hands, seems to have been the last to see him. Could he be responsible? Rebus's past seems remarkably unused - the SAS stuff has been largely downplayed since the first novel.
LIX: Ian Rankin, Fleshmarket Close (2000)
Here Rebus is somewhat rootless - his station has closed down, and he has no desk, a sign he should claim the carriage clock. However - two bodies are found in the cellar of a pub on Fleshmarket Close, and whilst all is not what it seems, there is still a crime involved. Meanwhile Rebus and Clarke are investigating the racially motivated killing of an immigrant, and shady goings in in an immigration centre, and Clarke is trying to track down the daughter of a friend. By this point Clarke is keeping as much from Rebus as he is from her.
And here we ground to a halt, having run out, and not having purchased the copy of The Naming of the Dead in Oxfam a couple of weeks back. No sign of a copy in there, or in any of the Canterbury charity shops. I found a copy in London at £3.50 but left it - but then found one today in Scrine for £2. I may finished the series this year.
A distinct sense of Scottish history coming in here, as the building of a new Scottish parliament is the background. Here a body is found behind a blocked off fireplace and a prospective MSP is killed. I confess this has blurred - as have most of the ones I've read this month - but good none the less.
LV: Ian Rankin, The Falls (2001)
Here a Scottish mystery is drawn on - a series of small coffins which matched the number of Burke and Hare bodies. A student vanishes, and as her parents are wealthy bankers, Rebus has to find her or her murderers quickly. If I recollect correctly, DS Siobhan Clarke is meanwhile following clues in an online game, hoping to find a murderer. This novel really sees the noticeable rise of Clarke as a character is league with and equivalent to Rebus. Part of that strange habit of the author keeping their main character out of the spotlight (recall have much Holmes is absent from the Conan Doyle novels).
LVI: Ian Rankin, Resurrection Men (2002)
These were of course body-snatchers, but here it is a group of police officers sent for re-education after being singled out as mavericks. Rebus joins them having lost his temper against DCI Templer. Of course, there's more to that than meets the eye, and Rebus is solving a crime whilst relearning tem work. Clarke, more and more like Rebus, has a case which requires the knowledge of Big Ger Cafferty, and she needs Rebus as go between.
LVII: Ben Nicholson (2008)
Exhibition catalogue - to be returned to.
LVIII: Ian Rankin, A Question of Blood (2003)
Two pupils are shot at a private school, and the ex-army gunman has killed himself. Rebus wants to know why. Meanwhile a criminal who has been stalking Clarke has been found burned to death, and Rebus, with burnt and bandaged hands, seems to have been the last to see him. Could he be responsible? Rebus's past seems remarkably unused - the SAS stuff has been largely downplayed since the first novel.
LIX: Ian Rankin, Fleshmarket Close (2000)
Here Rebus is somewhat rootless - his station has closed down, and he has no desk, a sign he should claim the carriage clock. However - two bodies are found in the cellar of a pub on Fleshmarket Close, and whilst all is not what it seems, there is still a crime involved. Meanwhile Rebus and Clarke are investigating the racially motivated killing of an immigrant, and shady goings in in an immigration centre, and Clarke is trying to track down the daughter of a friend. By this point Clarke is keeping as much from Rebus as he is from her.
And here we ground to a halt, having run out, and not having purchased the copy of The Naming of the Dead in Oxfam a couple of weeks back. No sign of a copy in there, or in any of the Canterbury charity shops. I found a copy in London at £3.50 but left it - but then found one today in Scrine for £2. I may finished the series this year.
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