FLESHMARKET CLOSE. Ian Rankin (A Rebus Novel) Hardback 2004
FLESHMARKET CLOSE. Ian Rankin (A Rebus Novel) Hardback 2004
FLESHMARKET CLOSE. Ian Rankin (A Rebus Novel) Hardback 2004
FLESHMARKET CLOSE. Ian Rankin (A Rebus Novel) Hardback 2004
FLESHMARKET CLOSE. Ian Rankin (A Rebus Novel) Hardback 2004
FLESHMARKET CLOSE. Ian Rankin (A Rebus Novel) Hardback 2004

FLESHMARKET CLOSE. Ian Rankin (A Rebus Novel) Hardback 2004

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FLESHMARKET CLOSE by Ian Rankin
Fleshmarket Close explores what it means to a society when shared heritage is lost beneath uglier aspects of our nature: greed, mistrust, violence and exploition. It is a true state of the nation novel, and one of Rebus's most personal cases yet.
A hardback published by Orion in 2004 (£17.99 r.r.p.)

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Listing TypeGallery Listing
Listing ID#229742950
Start TimeMon 26 May 2025 22:37:17 (BST)
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Fleshmarket Close is not one of the best of Rankin's John Rebus thrillers, but his second-best is still more than excellent. Middle age is catching up with Rebus--he currently has no desk as a none-too-subtle hint from his superiors that he should seek retirement--but he and his friend and protegee Siobhan, who is still not his lover, race around investigating a variety of seemingly unconnected cases… The sister of a dead rape victim is missing; stolen medical skeletons turn up embedded in a concrete floor; a Kurdish journalist is brutally killed; the son of a Glasgow ganglord has moved in to the Edinburgh vice scene.

Much of the book is dominated by two new settings--a sink estate divided between racist thugs and refugees, and a small town whose economy is dominated by an internment camp for those about to be deported; this is one of Rankin's preachier thrillers, but it is never less than intelligent and evocative in its descriptions of a contemporary squalor that spreads beyond the inner city. These are never quite orthodox police procedurals--Rebus' method is a little too like the standard private eye's way of wandering around being rude to people until something comes loose--but they have a deep seriousness about the way we live now that transcends mere noir moodiness.--Roz Kaveney

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