Knots And Crosses: From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES

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These tourists spent so much time photographing things that they never actually saw anything, unlike the young people milling around, who were too busy enjoying life to be bothered capturing false impressions of it. He's a sad bastard in a long line of sad bastard detectives but has enough uniqueness that I'll be happy to visit him again in the future. The man who begins to doubt, who shouts out against his God, looking for a response, and who gets one. There are some gaps, Rebus will need to grow into the character I’ve become familiar with, but the good news is that I’ve still got books 2 to 7 to enjoy watching him mature. We meet a cynical DS John Rebus, aged thirty-seven, divorced from Rhona, father to twelve-year-old Samantha, working long hours, haphazard meals, smoking too many cigarettes and downing whisky in triples (sound familiar?

There's a backstory that's worked in to the investigation in a clever way but it wasn't interesting or new in itself and the denouement was weak. I loved Rebus's characterization almost in its entirety, but for once a well-rounded main character wasn't exactly strong enough to hold up the whole novel, for me. He recently received the OBE for services to literature, and opted to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons. Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet. Detective John Rebus was trying to catch the killer of young girls – he would abduct them and not long after, the body of the girl would be found, brutally murdered, but never sexually assaulted.

Los seguidores de Rankin dicen que esta no es su mejor novela, pero que hay que leerla para entender al personaje. After sharing a quote from the novel, a friend from the UK responded it seemed I was identifying with John Rebus. We see how he fits into his environment at home and at work, how he relates to family, friends, and co-workers, and how his past haunts him.

Taking hints from seemingly cryptic anonymous letters, John connects the murders to his own military past. Rebus is supposed to be suffering from PTSD because of trauma he experienced during his Special Services training. But as the ghoulish killings mount and the tabloid headlines scream, Rebus cannot stop the feverish shrieks from within his own mind. I wasn't completely satisfied with the ending and with the solution of the mystery, for one thing, and I (but this is simply a matter of personal taste) could have done without the hypnosis. bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES 'This is British crime-writing of the finest, lasting quality' DAILY MAIL 'Genius .

When the tension finally starts to build, it continues on an unrelenting screaming frightening path to the end of the story. The story serves as a good introduction to detective Rebus himself, but the plot is too simplistic and somewhat unlikely. As Rebus assists with the serial killer inquiry he's unaware that a reporter, Jim Stevens, is stalking him. But what, if anything, do the disappearances have to do with bizarre letters Rebus has been getting in the post?