Set in Darkness, Ian Rankin
Set in Darkness, Ian Rankin
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Set in Darkness

Author: Ian Rankin

Narrator: Samuel Gillies

Unabridged: 16 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/03/2008


Synopsis

For the first time in 300 years, Scotland has its own Parliament, and to go with it, its own newly developed Parliament buildings. Detective Inspector John Rebus views the whole thing through a rather jaundiced eye, given that he's been chosen to liaise with the restructuring of the whole building. At first he thinks that the building's murky past may just be a break from the tedium--not every building has stories of a mad earl roasting a servant to death, after all--but when he is shown the legendary site, it's to discover a rather more recent body occupying the same place. As if that's not enough, a prospective Member of Parliament is found dead a few days later on the same site. As always, it's up to Rebus to find out what's going on ...

About Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin is a Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John on December 05, 2022

SPOILERS AHEAD A great story. Albeit a complicated plot. A body discovered after 20 years on the building site of the new Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Then the murder of a politician on the same site and then the suicide of a tramp who also has £400k in his bank account. Rebus begins to see a co......more