For the first time in 300 years, Scotland has its own Parliament, and to go with it, its own newly developed Parliament buildings. Detective Inspector John Rebus views the whole thing through a rather jaundiced eye, given that he's been chosen to liaise with the restructuring of the whole building. At first he thinks that the building's murky past may just be a break from the tedium--not every building has stories of a mad earl roasting a servant to death, after all--but when he is shown the legendary site, it's to discover a rather more recent body occupying the same place. As if that's not enough, a prospective Member of Parliament is found dead a few days later on the same site. As always, it's up to Rebus to find out what's going on ...
About the Author :
Ian Rankin, a New York Times bestselling author, is the recipient of an Edgar Award, a Gold Dagger for fiction, and a Chandler-Fulbright Fellowship.
Sam Gillies is an experienced audiobook narrator whose titles include A Fearsome Doubt, Legacy of the Dead, Let It Bleed, Wings of Fire, and others.
Review :
"DI John Rebus, of the drinking problem and the surly attitude, is back in a bigger and darker tale that indicts most of Scottish life from its new politics to its old-boy network...[Rankin is] one of the very best practitioners of police procedurals around today. Recommended."
-- "Library Journal"
"Like the best of Rankin's earlier novels, Set in Darkness works as a cleverly constructed account of crime and its consequences, as a vivid evocation of contemporary Edinburgh, a city 'defined by its past as much as by its present, ' as a richly nuanced portrait of its hard-edged hero, John Rebus...The result is one of Rankin's most fully realized creations, a hypnotically involving novel that reinforces his position as one of Europe's leading practitioners of literate, intelligent suspense."
-- "Barnes & Noble, editorial review"
"Rankin has woven a plot grittier and tighter than ever...Topical Scottish nationalism and the new parliament, along with Rankin's consistently fascinating view of Edinburgh's seedy side, give the novel interest beyond its plot. And the plot is worthy of the series: raging and racing and teetering on the edge of falling apart, before Rankin slams the reader with a final masterful twist."
-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
"Rankin...adds another bracing Scotch sour to his fine Rebus series, concentrating this time on mordant family relationships, professional infighting, and the near-lethal mistakes of a good man."
-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"
"Rankin's ability to keep finding new dimensions in Rebus, handle intricate plot details brilliantly, and evoke the gloom and darkness of his settling keep winning him new admirers, with just cause."
-- "Amazon.com, editorial review"
"The Rebus series has leapfrogged to the top of the procedural heap; it's now the standard against which the hard-boiled cop novel must be measured. Nobody writes darker than Rankin; nobody confronts the ravages of the human heart with a sharper or more unflinching eye; and nobody probes quite as deeply into the inner lives of today's browbeaten coppers."
-- "Booklist (starred review) "
