Weekly Geeks #23: Top reads for 2008, so far.The Inspector Rebus series of detective novels written by Scottish writer Ian Rankin features the main character known as Detective Inspector John Rebus.

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Review: PROBLEM AT POLLENSA BAY and other stories.CORDUROY MANSIONS, Alexander McCall Smith.Forgotten Books: THE COUNCIL OF JUSTICE, Edgar Wal.Review: THE ROAR OF THE BUTTERFLIES, Reginald Hill.It left me hoping against hope that this isn't the last we see of Rebus!īookzone interview with Ian Rankin on writing EXIT MUSIC Not a short read, but certainly an engrossing one. Rankin manages to bed this case against the issues of real time Scotland, focussing on Scottish independence, an issue that dominated the Scottish elections of 2006. In a sense this, their last case together, is an important test for her too, made all the more important when DCI McCrae decides that DS Clarke will be in charge of the case, with Rebus as a sort of mentor - if a loose cannon can ever be a mentor. Will she just move into Rebus' job as Detective Inspector and if she does, who will she choose to be her new partner? He would dearly like to put Cafferty away forever, but is that going to be a legacy he will leave to DS Siobhan Clarke? And Shiv has problems of her own. Rebus' biggest unfinished business is with Big Ger Cafferty. But there is so much more to be resolved. So solving this crime will be Rebus' last case. Late at night, at the foot of Raeburn Wynd the body of a Russian poet is discovered. He has no vision of what he will do in retirement and is determined to work as he's always done, right to the end.

He will turn 60 in 10 days and is legally required to retire. John Rebus is facing his last week in the police force.

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