![]() ![]() In this first book, Rebus, a detective sergeant, is already something of a black sheep among his colleagues for his loner ways. ![]() So, after an opportunity to read and review A Heart Full of Headstones (2022), the most recent book in the series, I enjoyed it so much that I knew I had to go back to the genesis of John Rebus and read the entire series. ![]() I’m late to the party with Rankin and his Rebus series, surprising since I read as much international crime as I do the domestic variety. He shows off his encyclopedic knowledge of Edinburgh and its surrounds, the setting of most of the Rebus novels, and he expertly details the painstaking investigation procedures used by Edinburgh detectives trying to catch a killer with the technology of the times. Yet the quality of the writing in this nearly thirty-six-year-old novel, written while Rankin was a postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh, illustrates why Rankin is one of the top crime writers in the business today. The plot smolders but never quite catches fire. It’s a labyrinthine tale of Edinburgh cops tracking a vicious serial killer who preys on young girls. Knots and Crosses is the brooding 1987 debut police thriller by Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin, introducing his Detective Inspector John Rebus character, a hard drinking Scottish detective with a troubled past, and launching the series that made Rankin famous. ![]()
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