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

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Two young girls were abducted separately, both gone missing for a few days, then were found dead, strangled.

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! Detective Sergeant John Rebus works in Edinburgh, Scotland with a love/hate obsession for his job with the police. Ian Rankin is a genius' Lee Child A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above.Aún tenía pendiente la primera entrega de John Rebus, publicada en 1987, y eso que va ya por la número 21 hasta la fecha. Assigned to the Incidents room scouring over reports looking for possible leads in the investigation.

So are you thinking to dive into Knots and Crosses and find just the umpteenth copy-and-paste thriller novel? 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.Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, and Edinburgh.

A hand poured wax seal to finish it all off – great for keeping and putting in a journal or scrapbook as decoration! In the introduction to this novel, Rankin states that Rebus lives directly opposite the window in Marchmont that he looked out of while writing the book.As much as I like Rebus as a detective I don't believe his paunchy, sloppy-looking self would get beautiful DI Gill Templer to sleep with him right off the bat.

I also enjoyed reading about sections that were only hinted at briefly in the television versions such as an emotionally despondent segment where under hypnosis Rebus reflects on his time training for the SAS. 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. During his investigation of Michael, he uncovered the surprise sibling relationship between John and Michael! His first Rebus novel was published in 1987; the Rebus books are now translated into 22 languages and are bestsellers on several continents.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. 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.