Fleshmarket Alley

This was a reread. It proved to be a night and day experience, the reread being the night. It does have some professionally installed bells and whistles, but made for pretty raw and rough reading. Rebus is too much the gallant knight in shining armour. He gets the best lines, probably to the detrimen......more

*Θέλω να πάω στην Σκωτία/Εδιμβούργο και να τα πιω με τον Επιθεωρητή Ρέμπους* *αναστεναγμός* *αφού πάω στην Βόρεια Ιρλανδία/Μπέλφαστ και τα πιω με τον Αστυνόμο Ντάφι* *αναστεναγμός* *Χριστούγεννα στο μαγευτικό Σουρδιστάν* *τριπλός αναστεναγμός*......more

2011 view: Two skeletons are found during renovations to a bar cellar and a few days later an asylum seeker is stabbed to death on a sink estate. St Leonards has closed down its major crimes unit, causing Rebus and Siobhan to be working out of another office. They find themselves on the skeleton cas......more

Fortunately this book held my attention over a number of days of active travel through the Canadian Rockies and more, with natural beauty taking a starring role. Both Rebus and Siobhan performed above and beyond in their separate yet related investigations of murder and exploitation of immigrants.......more

A good thriller. Although having Rebus and Siobhan working on two separate murder cases and then linking them together was a bit too ambitious. An immigrant is murdered in a housing estate with racist overtones. Elsewhere where a immigrant centre is located near a small village another murder occurs......more