All of the characters you've known and loved gather together again in the most recent installment in the Rebus series:Siobhan Clarke is trying to solve the murder of a high government official in what appears to be a robbery gone wrong. But if that is the case, then why is nothing missing from his house?
Malcolm Fox, recently a member of the Complaints division (think Internal Affairs in the United States) is now working in the "trenches". A gangster from Glasgow and his son are in Edinburgh. When a team from Glasgow comes to follow them, Fox is assigned to help with surveillance.
And then there's John Rebus, recently retired (though not by choice) from Police Scotland. When both cases seem to collide, he is delighted to be asked to help Clarke and Fox. But before he can his old nemesis "Big Ger" Cafferty becomes a target. Grudgingly, Cafferty turns to Rebus for help and, equally grudgingly, Rebus helps him. They are both, after all, the last remainders of how things used to work in Edinburgh.
Rankin brings these three people together to solve several cases that diverge and converge and then diverge again and had me hooked from the beginning. I've come to "know" these characters after years of reading his books and, while it was the cases they solved that kept me going it was also the additional insight into their personal lives that kept me racing through. Clarke and Fox an item? Rebus with a dog? And an Edinburgh so real that you'll feel as if you're walking the streets with them.
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