![]() ![]() ![]() He's at his best when he focuses on Rebus and the city of Edinburgh itself. Rankin deftly captures the mad circus-the media, the security, the demonstrators-of the G8 summit, but this background muddies the narrative waters. Webster's death, never wholly resolved, does connect with Rebus's investigation, but the link is tenuous at best. Rebus and Siobhan Clarke find themselves investigating an apparent serial killer and a dead junior government minister in the week of the 2005 G8 summit and the. Rebus is more than willing to flout authority in his dogged pursuit of Colliar's killer, who may be a vigilante intent on punishing rapists. No one really cares about the case except for Rebus, and that's mainly because Colliar was muscle for Edinburgh's crime boss "Big Ger" Cafferty, with whom Rebus has tangled in earlier novels. While his colleagues are preoccupied by ensuring security at the conference, Rebus is devoting his energy to the murder of Cyril Colliar, a recently released violent sex offender. ), Ben Webster, a Scottish delegate to the Group of Eight summit, dies suspiciously a couple of days before the world's leaders gather in Scotland in 2005. ![]() John Rebus (after 2005's Fleshmarket Alley Rebus came to law enforcement with only one goal: to stop crimes when possible, to seek justice and to always 'do it his way. An aging Rebus is tired, frustrated and more introspective than in any of the previous installments. At the start of Rankin's overly complex 18th book to feature Edinburgh's Insp. In THE NAMING OF THE DEAD, Rankins latest Rebus novel, he limns the policeman with a little twist. ![]()
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