Advantages: Good characters, interesting look at religion and paganism Disadvantages: Hard to pick up unless you have read previous books in the series
"To Dream of the Dead" is the tenth book from Phil Rickman in the Merrily Watkins series. The Merrily Watkins series began in 1998 with "The Wine of Angels" and follows the adventures of a female Church of England exorcist in Herefordshire. Although thi ...
Advantages: A good old-fashioned detective thriller Disadvantages: A little formalaic
...IAN RANKIN specialises in the darker side of Edinburgh. The back streets, the seedy clubs, the low-life and the criminals that share the same streets with hordes of tourists and the respectable, genteel city that most people are familiar with. SET in ...
Advantages: It's a Scottish police procedural, makes a change from America ones Disadvantages: Rebus is not the nicest of characters, dark and gritty
Rebus returns and he is still at home in Edinburgh. It is the return of the Scottish parliament and feelings are running high. DI Rebus is to be a liaison officer for the Parliament, based in Queensberry House, where a youth was once said to have been ...
Advantages: Dark, evocative and complex Disadvantages: slightly unsatisfactory ending
This is another excellent book featuring the main character DI John Rebus. Rebus is the burnt out, alcoholic inspector who permanently sails close to the wind and most definitely solo, preferring his own company to most of his colleagues. This is with the ...
Advantages: Superbly written drama Disadvantages: None
...Rankin is a relatively ‘new’ writer for me. I literally stumbled across him in the local library – thank god I did, otherwise I would have missed out on some of the best fiction I have ever read.
In Set in Darkness, the main character is this book ...
