Book description
It's late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A dissident Russian poet has been found dead in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. By apparent coincidence…
Why read it?
1 author picked Exit Music as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
An old favourite that I re-read on a train journey.
It should have been the last of Rankin’s Rebus novels, with the eponymous policeman retiring at the end of the story, although the author revived him a few years later. It is the usual mixture of mayhem and a little mystery set in the underworld of Edinburgh, with the usual protagonists.
Re-reading any of the Rebus books is like curling up under a warm blanket. You know what is going to happen, but you are happy, to mix the metaphor, to go along for the ride.
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