- Mystery, Detective and mystery stories, Police, Retirement
It's late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Ian Rankin
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 419
- Publisher
- Orion Books, Ed. du Masque, Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Lt
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- French, und, English
- ISBN
- 9780316099271
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