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Set in Darkness

By Ian Rankin

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780752837086

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Two masked men abduct women on their way home from singles bars; a mummified corpse turns up bricked into a fireplace in one of devolved Scotland's new government buildings; a prospective New Labour candidate is battered to death; and Inspector Rebus's old antagonist Ger Cafferty is allowed home froContinue

Two masked men abduct women on their way home from singles bars; a mummified corpse turns up bricked into a fireplace in one of devolved Scotland's new government buildings; a prospective New Labour candidate is battered to death; and Inspector Rebus's old antagonist Ger Cafferty is allowed home from prison to die of cancer...Ian Rankin's gloomy new crime novel has all the usual ingredients of his Rebus series--Rebus's drinking, his messy relationships with women and his inability to get on with his superiors and more ambitious equals are traits more usually associated with private eye novels than with police procedurals, but they help explain why a cop with Rebus's high clear-up rate has avoided promotion to a desk.Everyone told him that this was a sign, that he was here because the chiefs at the Big House had plans for him. But Rebus knew better. He knew that his boss had put his name forward because he was hoping to keep Rebus out of trouble and out of his hair...And if--if--Rebus accepted without complaining and saw the assignment through, then maybe the Farmer would receive a chastened Rebus back into the fold.The Edinburgh atmosphere--from the forced politeness of smart dinner parties to the hair-trigger violence of slum pubs--is as admirable as ever, and Rebus's capacity for working things out slowly in his own head remains as plausible as ever as a description of a particular kind of dogged intelligence. Like several books in this series, this is also an intelligent novel of the New Scots Politics--part of what makes Rebus both a successful investigator and doomed to offend the powerful is his unerring instinct for the scandalous and the corrupt.
Roz Kaveney

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  • First catch your spit-roasted servant

    Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin Orion, £16.99, pp415 Buy it from BOL Shame the Devil by George P Pelecanos Victor Gollancz, £9.99, pp299 Buy it from BOL Blood by Joseph Glass Macmillan, £16.99, pp499 Buy it from BOL From Conan Doyle to Colin Dexter, cr ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Set in Darkness By Ian Rankin

    Tip of the icepick: Bruce's mystery of the monthIan Rankin's latest Inspector Rebus novel, Set in Darkness, after spending months on the British bestseller lists, is finally available here in the Colonies. Rankin is an author whose time has come: he ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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    Rereading of the italian version (Dietro la nebbia), enjoed more perhaps for the slow reading. The usual good Rebus.

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    Max Rebus said on Jan 24, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • Not the best of the series, in my opinion. It builds up really well, then the focus shifts to a story that is (or seems) marginal for the main plot but important for Rebus as a character. In the last couple of chapters everything ties up together, but it feels like it was written in a hurry. So, goo ... (continue)

    Not the best of the series, in my opinion. It builds up really well, then the focus shifts to a story that is (or seems) marginal for the main plot but important for Rebus as a character. In the last couple of chapters everything ties up together, but it feels like it was written in a hurry. So, good story with a good ending that would have deserved many more pages to be really satisfactory.

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    Marco Piva said on Jan 12, 2012 | Add your feedback

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