The Impossible Dead

Ian Rankin is in fine form with his second Malcolm Fox crime thriller. With terrorism and Scottish Nationalism as it's backdrop, this novel finds Fox having to untangle a complex web of conspiracy and numerous suspects as he's drawn into an investigation of the murder of a former policeman.Excellent......more

It's a thoroughly predictable line, but a wholly accurate one: Malcolm Fox is not John Rebus. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but the fact is that Fox remains, after two books, a not overly compelling character. In this book his status as an investigator of internal police corruption is repeate......more

There was a fierce wind blowing in from the North Sea. The water was choppy, and puddles along the promenade offered evidence that the tide was prone to breaking over the sea wall. The gulls overhead looked to be working hard to stay airborne. There was something odd about the design of this waterfr......more

I am a dedicated Ian Rankin fan. In the past some may have called me a groupie. Anyway… Rankin is a master of the craft of crime fiction writing. He understands how to create detectives and criminals. He knows how to make settings come alive and become characters in his novels. Fox, Rankin's new prota......more