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

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There are the women Rebus gets involved with: from Rhona Phillips, his estranged wife, to Gill Templer, a D. As Rebus assists with the serial killer inquiry he's unaware that a reporter, Jim Stevens, is stalking him. The higher up you climbed into crime, the more subtly you began to move back towards legitimacy, until a handful of lawyers could crack open your system, and they were always affordable, always on hand to be bribed.

Overall, I enjoyed this first book in the series and feel like it's a good introduction to Rebus and his personality. This hasn’t been a problem, there is a background thread that runs through the series – an army career, a failed marriage and a daughter – but it’s really just background noise to whatever is happening in the current book. Being his first novel ever, there are some clunky bits and needless side stories but you can forgive those moments since it is so fun to read cop talk in a Scottish accent!Weak points caused by something in the past he's trying desperately to forget or at least cram into a closet and lock it shut forever. He is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award, and he received two Dagger Awards for the year's best short story and the Gold Dagger for Fiction. I'd been toying with Rankin's other crime fiction work, but then it was time to read the real thing.

In this novel we are introduced to the then DS Rebus, a flawed, very human character, who readers can instantly relate to, which is probably the main reason for the popularity of this series.p>Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. 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. He wondered if it was his ex-wife messing around but wasn’t to realise it had everything to do with him and a past he no longer remembered. The case is already under his skin, constantly on his mind, when he gets sudden word from the police - Rhona was attacked, and Samantha taken.

Detective Sergeant John Rebus is involved in the investigation of a serial killer in Edinburgh, Scotland. It's all a bit much -- and presented much too fast, as in a one-hour television show -- but there's some talent at work here.Samo ga kod nas publika ignoriše iako smo teškom mukom obezbedili prava za njegove knjige i objavili čak 4 naslova iz serijala o rebusu. Compared to other popular crime fiction this might be a dark proposition but to me it just feels like Rankin was either holding back on the darkness or has simply written a book that can be classed as "Factory-light. 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. Rebus is supposed to be suffering from PTSD because of trauma he experienced during his Special Services training. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987; the Rebus books are now translated into 22 languages and are bestsellers on several continents.