Fleshmarket Close CD + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Fleshmarket Close CD

Fleshmarket Close is not one of the best of Rankin's John Rebus thrillers, but his second-best is still more than excellent. Middle age is catching up with Rebus--he currently has no desk as a none-too-subtle hint from his superiors that he should seek retirement--but he and his friend and protegee Siobhan, who is still not his lover, race around investigating a variety of seemingly unconnected cases… The sister of a dead rape victim is missing; stolen medical skeletons turn up embedded in a concrete floor; a Kurdish journalist is brutally killed; the son of a Glasgow ganglord has moved in to the Edinburgh vice scene. Much of the book is dominated by two new settings--a sink estate divided between racist thugs and refugees, and a small town whose economy is dominated by an internment camp for those about to be deported; this is one of Rankin's preachier thrillers, but it is never less than intelligent and evocative in its descriptions of a contemporary squalor that spreads beyond the inner city. These are never quite orthodox police procedurals--Rebus' method is a little too like the standard private eye's way of wandering around being rude to people until something comes loose--but they have a deep seriousness about the way we live now that transcends mere noir moodiness.--Roz KaveneyRead More

from£27.52 | RRP: £14.99
* Excludes Voucher Code Discount Also available Used from £6.04
  • Blackwell

    The Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author is back... More gripping crime fiction with a contemporary theme and starring Inspector Rebus CD contains an exclusive interview with Ian Rankin specially recorded for the audio. An illegal immigrant is...

  • Pickabook

    Ian Rankin, James MacPherson

  • 075286808X
  • 9780752868080
  • Ian Rankin
  • 24 September 2004
  • Orion
  • Audio CD (CD)
  • Abridged edition
  • Abridged, Audiobook, CD
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. If you click through any of the links below and make a purchase we may earn a small commission (at no extra cost to you). Click here to learn more.

Would you like your name to appear with the review?

We will post your book review within a day or so as long as it meets our guidelines and terms and conditions. All reviews submitted become the licensed property of www.find-book.co.uk as written in our terms and conditions. None of your personal details will be passed on to any other third party.

All form fields are required.