A Question of Blood - Ian Rankin

...Once again, this one was a brilliant read, and I couldn't put it down until the last page had been read. And once again, it was definitely worth it. A shooting in a private school near Edinburgh gives John Rebus and Siobhan Clarke a lot of work to do: two seventeen year olds have been shot and killed, and another wounded, by an ex-Army officer who then turns the gun on himself. Rebus and Clarke's job is to find out exactly why the man would have ...
...in trouble of his own. A man who has been stalking Siobhan has been found burned to death in his own home, and Rebus, who has just left hospital with scalded hands that he claims were caused by hot bath water, is the prime suspect... At 360 pages, it's quite a long read, but one that you won't be able to put down. As with his other novels, Rankin has created a gripping and very readable piece of fiction, not just through the brilliance of the plot, ...

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...However, I do still have a review to write and if I happen to jump ahead of the known plot then I apologise! _For those of you who have no knowledge of the John Rebus series by Ian Rankin, here is a brief history._ Ian Rankin thought up the idea of John Rebus whilst at university in 1985. Rebus himself was born in 1947 in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. He had a troubled childhood with his mum dying young, and joined the army after leaving ...
...soldiers mind and was offered a route out with the Lothian and Borders police. This is where the series of books picks Rebus up, and during the early books he still ahs contact with his wife and daughter. However as the series plays on, Rebus becomes a loner who is interested in only one thing - his work. Rankin often introduces characters into the series who could become Rebus' genuine friends, only for them to be killed or disappear from his life ...

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...his superiors. This book is a little unusual because Rebus works pretty closely with a couple of partners, something he has steered clear from with almost pathological alacrity up until now. It felt as though the whole tone of the book was much lighter as a result, particularly when dealing with his emotional state. The book opens with Rebus in hospital nursing two very badly scalded hands. Apart from raising the question as to how he came to scald ...
...the important ones like drinking a beer or lighting a cigarette to driving a car. The result is some interesting working interactions between Rebus and his fellow detectives, most notably Siobhan Clarke, which makes a very refreshing change. Soon after leaving hospital, Rebus is called in to assist on what appears to be a tragic but straightforward schoolyard murder / suicide shooting. His experience is requested because the murderer is an ex-SAS ...

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...When two students of a private school are shot dead in their common room by a crazed ex-soldier, who then takes his own life, Detective Rebus is put on the case to provide the grieving families with the answers they crave. What made this man do this? and why their boys? But tje invistigation throws up more questions than it answers. Why have the army sent investigaters snooping around?, and what are the looking for?, and what did an ex army man have ...
...suspicion of the death of a man he was known enemies with. Can it just be coincidence that Rebus shows up with badly burnt hands after the man is found tied to a chair and burned alive. Read the excellent novel to find out.. xxxx is it any good????? xxxxxx It is an excellent read. It has you totally captivated from the offset. Ian Rankin is a superb novelist who knows exactly how to hook his readers. His knowledge of teh differnt cultures that ...

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