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8 reviews
Ian Rankin

Little, Brown and Company, 2008

Farewell Rebus?
Well, if it was, then it is a fine and fitting end. Although the cliffhanger tells us that we aren't going to be seeing that much less of Rebus. Rankin used the self imposed limitation of the last ten days of Rebus official career very well. The action is taut and well plotted and the descriptions of people, places, and things are spot-on. By now, Rebus is like an old friend who drops ...

Hide and Seek (Inspector Rebus Novels)

14 reviews
Ian Rankin

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1997

Ian Rankin/Inspector Rebus take Hide and Seek to a new level.
I have to say that I wasn't sure what to think of this book, especially since I'm not a big fan of mystery/detective books, but I read Ian's first book in the series and enjoyed it so I thought I'd see if he could keep my interest on the second......and boy did he!!!! It still boggles my mind how Ian writes a 210 page book with so many twist and turns and yet it never feels like he has to rush ...

Strip Jack

13 reviews
Ian Rankin

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1998

best ever Rebus?
Having grown up in Scotland I've read quite a few of these out of pure nostalgia for the olde country......this one is perhaps the best I've read so far as Rankin ditches the faux working class realism of junkies and serial killers and moves into perhaps his own (and therefore most comfortable) world, that of the Range Rover driving middle classes. At heart Rebus, with his flat and his ...

Mind's Eye: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery (Inspector Van Veeteren Mysteries)

4 reviews
Hakan Nesser

Pantheon, 2008

"I think this is a nasty business."
In Hakan Nesser's "Mind's Eye," a Swedish high school teacher named Janek Mitter finds his wife of three months, Eva Maria Ringmar, drowned in their bathtub. When Mitter is accused of murdering her, he has no alibi. He claims that, on the night in question, he was asleep in the next room after drinking too much, and awoke the next morning suffering from a massive hangover. His defense lawyer ...

Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus Novels)

44 reviews
Ian Rankin

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1995

Mr. Hyde's Edinburgh, not McCall Smith's...
This is the first of Rankin's Edinburgh crime novels featuring detective John Rebus. Alexander McCall Smith gave Rankin a "cameo" part in his serial novel 44 Scotland Street, mentioning in his introduction that Rankin thought his portrait much "nicer" than his real personality. I don't know about that...but it is certainly true that while McCall Smith gives us a colorful, heartwarming view of ...

Tooth and Nail (Inspector Rebus Novels)

14 reviews
Ian Rankin

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1996

Wolfman.
He had wanted to update Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" for modern times, Ian Rankin writes about his first Inspector Rebus novel, "Knots and Crosses" in the introduction to the British compilation "Rebus: The Early Years" (unfortunately, not available in the U.S.), which contains the first three installments of the series. Oblivious to the mere existence of such a thing as the ...

The Paper Moon (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)

12 reviews
Andrea Camilleri

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008

Subtle Sicilian delight
This was an excellent book, and one for any fan of Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti mysteries. The author creates a vivid picture of Sicily and develops the plot and characters with singlar style and humor. Reading the book made me want to check out the author's other works in the Inspector Montalbano series.

Let It Bleed (Inspector Rebus Novels)

12 reviews
Ian Rankin

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1998

"He swallowed the anger down and held it in his gut. It was hotter than tea, stronger than whisky."
The daughter of Edinburgh's Lord Provost is missing; a car chase of two possible kidnappers ends with the supposed perps' suicide; then another suicide occurs, seemingly unconnected. No crime there, and yet there are puzzling unexplained details, which Rebus can't get off his mind. These details, and the discovery of the missing daughter, lead to the unwinding of a Machiavellian scheme in which ...

People Who Walk In Darkness (Inspector Rostnikov)

6 reviews
Stuart M. Kaminsky

Forge Books, 2008

Kaminsky delivers again
Rostnikov returns once again with an excellent cast of supporting characters. As an avid reader, I grow weary of villians that I can recognize in the first third of the book as well as the introduction of characters that we do not really care about. Once more the creative genius of the author gives us characters that we enjoy reading about, and in my opinion, are unmatched in fiction. The are ...

Not in the Flesh: A Wexford Novel (Inspector Wexford Mystery)

24 reviews
Ruth Rendell

Crown, 2008

Back in the company of Inspector Wexford
I've been pretty hard on Ruth Rendell lately. I miss the startling acid observations in her earlier psychological thrillers and their wicked plot twists. I miss her writing as Barbara Vine, under which she produces her best work. After spending several decades in her company, I think I've gotten greedy and for that I'm sorry. The worst Ruth Rendell is better than the best of many of her ...

Wolf to the Slaughter: An Inspector Wexford Novel

5 reviews
Ruth Rendell

Ballantine Books, 2008

Absolutely stunning
Anita Margolis, young, beautiful, carefree, has vanished into thin air. She left her home to attend a party one wet evening, but has not been seen since. She is reported missing soon after by her brother, whom she shared a flat with, the acclaimed but eccentric artist Rupert Margolis. Inspector Burden quickly forms an impression of a wanton young girl simply gone off somewhere with a boyfriend ...

Let It Bleed (Inspector Rebus Novels)

Gallows View: The First Inspector Banks Mystery

33 reviews
Peter Robinson

Avon, 2000

The First Inspector Banks Mystery
Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and is the author of a number of previous novels featuring Inspector Banks. He is the winner of numerous awards in the United States, Britain and Canada, and in 2002 he won the CWA Dagger in the Library. As I also come from Leeds the background to his stories is something that I have experienced first hand and because of this I have a special affection for his ...

The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus Novels)

15 reviews
Ian Rankin

St. Martin's Minotaur, 1999

a very tangled story with a complex detective character
Welcome to the dark side of Edinburgh! Once again Inspector John Rebus has a job in the Scottish City. This time it seems that he is painfully, personally involved - his daughter, Sammy, is in a coma after being hit by a car. And he had been hiding a Bosnian girl made prostitute by one of the gangs fighting for dominance over the city, in her apartment... In "The Hanging Garden" (the first ...

A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley)

63 reviews
Elizabeth George

Bantam, 2007

Inspector Lynley and Havers' first case together
I just read this first of Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley mysteries in order to compare it to the BBC television version, which was shown in the US on PBS's "Mystery." It is more complex than the movie, even though the movie was allotted 2 90-min. episodes instead of one. Also, it is a more harrowing experience than the movie, which considerably softened the story for tv. George's writing is ...

Unseen: A Mystery (Inspector Anders Knutas Mysteries)

3 reviews
Mari Jungstedt

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006

entertaining serial killer Swedish police procedural
The friends meet at a resort on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Helena is with Per; Emma with her spouse; Olle and his neighbors Eva and Rikard; and finally Beata and her American husband are all there. However, instead of an amiable get together at the trendy tourist locale they chose, jealousies explode leading to accusations and rage. Not long afterward, the prime focus ...

The Black Book

11 reviews
Ian Rankin

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000

Vicious loan sharking and murder
This is an earlier novel by the author. I did not give it five stars because I had trouble keeping some of the characters straight as the plot moved between characters. The novel is partly a mystery, and partly deals with the love life of Inspector Rebus. When a DC working with Rebus is assaulted, Rebus looks into the matter and is drawn into a cold case. A man was murdered five years ...

Black Seconds (Inspector Sejer Mysteries)

6 reviews
Karin Fossum

Harcourt, 2008

More Konrad Sejer and Jacob Skarre, please!
Creepy is an understatement when talking about Karin Fossum's detective series featuring Inspector Konrad Sejer and his colleague Jacob Skarre. In "Black Seconds," readers get a glimpse into a dark world not too many authors can create as powerful and troubling as Fossum. From the beginning of the series in "Don't Look Back" until now in "Black Seconds," Fossum knows how to create a ...

The Indian Bride (Inspector Sejer Mysteries)

19 reviews
Karin Fossum

Harvest Books, 2008

Maybe the best mystery I've read & among the best books
I'm an English major/English teacher sort of person, and even a would-be writer. I used to think I could write pretty well, but I have the growing and strong perception that there are people out there who write better than me for sure, and maybe than some of the "greats" that we all read ("red") years ago and even read ("reed") in school now. There's no better example than the Indian Bride. It's ...

Mortal Causes (Inspector Rebus Novels)

9 reviews
Ian Rankin

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1997

Troubles In Edinburgh
After a particularly gruesome murder is discovered during Edinburgh's Fringe Festival, Inspector John Rebus is seconded to the elite Scottish Crime Squad. The reason for this is that aspects of the murder make it appear that a terrorist group was responsible and Rebus's previous SAS experience would come in handy. The investigation takes him from his home base to the villages of rural Scotland ...

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