LET IT BLEED: A John Rebus Mystery (Detective John Rebus Novels) - Hardcover

Rankin, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684830558 ISBN 13: 9780684830551

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1996

Synopsis

Inspector Rebus searches for the answers to what at first seems to be a petty embezzlement case but that turns out to be a crime that reaches into the top political echelons and has left at least four people dead. 12,500 first printing.

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Review:

Detective Inspector John Rebus is not a man easily intimidated, so when political heavyweights start to lean on the dour, moralistic Edinburgh detective to stop an investigation, Rebus doggedly digs in and follows the case as it moves from embezzlement to murder and finally to conspiracy at the highest level of government.

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Praise for Ian Rankin:

"Ian Rankin is up there among the best crime novelists at work today. His stuff is always taut, gritty, and stirring. At the heart of it stands Rebus, a character for the ages because he's a cop with style, wit, and an inalienable sense of the gray area between right and wrong." --Michael Connelly

"The progenitor--and king--of tartan noir." --James Ellroy

"A novelist of great scope, depth, and power...Brilliant." --Jonathan Kellerman

"In Rankin you cannot go wrong." --THE BOSTON GLOBE

"Ian Rankin's brilliant series featuring John Rebus is the kind of blistering police procedural that gives the genre a good name." --ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

"A brilliant series...the work of a master." --THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER & CHRONICLE

"Crime fiction at its best." --THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

"Rankin's dexterity in juggling plots and threats and motives lights up the darkness with a poet's grace. Reading him is like watching somebody juggle a dozen bottles of single malt without spilling a drop." --KIRKUS REVIEWS

"A brutal but beautifully written series...Rankin pushes the procedural form well past conventional genre limits." --THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0684830558
• ISBN 13: 9780684830551
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288