Exit Music (Inspector Rebus) by Ian Rankin and James Macpherson

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Exit Music (Inspector Rebus)
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Updated on 12-28-2008.

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Publisher: Hachette Audio; Abridged edition (September 17, 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1600244548

ISBN-13: 978-1600244544

Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces ()

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. James MacPhersons home-grown Scottish burr is put to excellent use narrating Rankins 17th and possibly best crime novel featuring Det. Insp. John Rebus of the Edinburgh police. At 60, its retirement time for Rebus and, as expected, Rankins rebellious series hero isn't going quietly. Not with the murder of a dissident Russian poet to solve and a career-long battle with local crime lord Big Ger Cafferty to close down. MacPherson easily conveys Rebuss gruff impatience, Caffertys deeper, nastier menace and Det. Siobhan Clarkes brittle coolness. He even manages to lose the burr long enough to get past several Russian-thick accents. Though Rebuss mention of perusing his unsolved cases in retirement offers some hope of future sleuthing, this reads like a farewell novel. Along with its expected well-crafted procedural elements, Rankin has included several moments of wistfulness and regret, and MacPherson makes the most of every one of them. A Little, Brown hardcover (Reviews, July 7). (Sept.)
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From Bookmarks Magazine
This nostalgic farewell for the aging, rebellious, and popular Rebus raised an all-consuming question for critics: is this really the end to the beloved detective, or will he return? The cliffhanger ending, as well as the general belief that Rankin would never give up his adored character, suggests that Rebus could make a comeback. “Exit Music does leave the door open for more Rebus stories as well as a series featuring Siobhan, who has become more of a presence in each novel,” notes the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Either way, the novel, framed by the fight for an independent Scotland and another labyrinthine case, is a fitting end to Rebus’s career. A few clichés are unavoidable for this prolific author, and a slow start bothered some critics. Still, most agree with the New Yorker: “Rankin’s work is crime fiction at its most consuming, cerebral best.”
Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Exit Music (Inspector Rebus) (Hardcover) Ian Rankin has crafted one of the best mystery series ever written. While many novelists fade after half a dozen books, in "Exit Music" Rankin has kept the character of John Rebus as fresh, human, and complex in the seventeeth novel in this series as he was when he first appeared in "Knots and Crosses." The sense of inevitability, frustration, and a man out of sorts is palpable. Rebus, ten days away from mandatory retirement, tries to tie up a career's worth of lose ends through the murder of a Russian expatriate poet. The connections between the "underworld and the overworld", the threads that run through the fabric of Edinburgh's society, once again weave a rich and satisfying story. There is vintage Rebus, verbally abusing a senior member of the force and breaking all the rules but none of the laws. There is the shadow of Big Ger Cafferty, Rebus' Moriarty, falling over the city. There is Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke, the London transplant, who tolerates, understands, and reveres her iconoclastic partner. In a trip to Scotland in late 2005, we spent a couple of days in Edinburgh. The city itself has always been one of the richest characters in Rankin's work. We peered down Fleshmarket Close, visited the Parliament building, stood near the Mound, and had a whisky at the Oxford Bar. All have featured in one or several of the novels. A strong sense of character, a strong sense of plot, and a strong sense of place make the John Rebus series literature.

Exit Music (Inspector Rebus)
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