Strip Jack
Inspector Rebus, Book 4

As I continue my journey through the early episodes of this excellent crime series, I reach book 4. Detective Inspector Rebus is as curmudgeon as ever and still can’t quite bring himself to give any real respect to authority. His personal life is in some disorder, too. He really must devote some tim......more

3.5 I’m going with a short but sweet review here— mostly because I don’t want to accidentally spoil anything. Plus, it’s after midnight and that darn alarm clock beckons. So after reading the first two Rebus books, I had to skip a few as our library system doesn’t own all of the older entries in this......more

Inspector Rebus case No. 4: Yet another interesting and well composed Rebus case. MP Gregor Jack is found by the police and press at a brothel - and that's just the start of the MP's troubles. Rebus is sympathetic to Jack as the media frenzy picks up pace, but as more is revealed, he begins to have......more

An early Rebus when he was gentler and had more humour. Some good puns in this story. An MP Gregor Jack is caught in a police raid in a brothel. Then his wife Liz disappears. There is two groups of friends with lots of red herrings. Rankin shares his musical tastes with Rebus and Jack liking similar......more

A complex web of college friends now mostly successful adults present some baffling puzzles for Rebus to untangle, not before deaths and not without Rebus losing his hair to fire in a battle to bring justice.......more