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

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When the tension finally starts to build, it continues on an unrelenting screaming frightening path to the end of the story.

Ian Rankin shows, throughout the novel, an uncanny ability to lift the veil of one's everyday thoughts and perceptions to reveal a somewhat twisted reality lying underneath, like a lurking beast of prey, and he does it subtly enugh, thoughtfully enoough, to convince me he is no mere hireling. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking and drinking too much, his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife, is one of many policemen hunting the killer. 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.Samo ga kod nas publika ignoriše iako smo teškom mukom obezbedili prava za njegove knjige i objavili čak 4 naslova iz serijala o rebusu. Assigned to the Incidents room scouring over reports looking for possible leads in the investigation. A hand poured wax seal to finish it all off – great for keeping and putting in a journal or scrapbook as decoration!

And, most of all, there's Rebus' past, the years in the army and SAS that he won't -- or can't -- talk about. El Edimburgo que nos muestra Rebus no es la ciudad turística y acogedora a la que estamos acostumbrados, y eso denota que conoce el terreno por el que se mueve. When a serial killer starts murdering young girls in Edinburgh, Rebus is drafted onto the team investigating the deaths. Being a big fan of Scottish lit, I've always kept Rankin at arms length, thinking that he'd be too pulpy and pop culturey to be worth reading. bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES 'Ian Rankin is a genius' Lee Child 'Britain's best crime novelist' DAILY EXPRESS.So are you thinking to dive into Knots and Crosses and find just the umpteenth copy-and-paste thriller novel? Things haven't been good for John Rebus since his SAS days - he had joined to prove his worth to his unloving, indifferent father who did love his other son, Michael, much more than John. 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.

Como es la primera que leo del autor solo os puedo decir que la trama es sencilla, con un ritmo pausado pero constante y sin grandes giros. Lately, though, I've felt Rankin's pull, especially since Henning Mankell's Wallander books reignited my interest in crime fiction. A captivating and at times consuming tale; there's a serial killer of young girls; and Rebus' brother appears to be involved in drugs, and Rebus himself without a clue about either matter. Everyone has something to hide A missing private investigator is found, locked in a car hidden deep in the woods.Detective Sergeant John Rebus is assigned to the case, a top priority in Edinburgh, where the locals like to think this sort of thing can't happen. Poor Sisyphus, doomed to roll a boulder up a hill without ever reaching the summit before it rolled back downhill. John and Michael now have a complicated relationship, and John hasn't visited his married brother and his family in five years. as if our hero is PC Plod rather than a highly trained detective) it's essential that we should care about the characters. 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.

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