The Black Book
A Crime, Cultural, Mystery book. , , . , . Ian Rankin, The Black Book //
When the Central Hotel, a place of decidedly unsavory reputation, burned to the ground in a mysterious fire, the Edinburgh police were unable to disguise their delight. That is, until a body was found in the still-smoldering ashes, charred beyond all identification but with a bullet lodged in its skull. Now it's five years later and Inspector John Rebus is following any leads in a vicious off-duty ambush that has put one of his favorite junior officers into a coma. A cheap black notebook belonging to the wounded policeman contains a cryptic allusion to the almost-forgotten blaze, but crucial pieces of the puzzle obstinately refuse to fall in place. What could young Detective Sergeant Brian Holmes have learned to render him such a threat that he must be silenced at all costs? "The past is important," Rebus...
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- Pages: 352 pages
- ISBN: 9780752877242 / 752877240
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Everything you do from waking till sleeping is against somebody's Bible, Cafferty. Ian Rankin, The Black Book // As usual, Vanderhydes memory was sharp enough when it suited him. Thats true. All the same, you were there. Yes, I was. But I left several hours before the fire started. Not guilty, your honour. Why were you there in the first place? To meet a friend for a drink. A seedy place for a drink. Was it? Youll have to remember, Inspector, I couldnt see anything. It certainly didnt smell or feel particularly disreputable. Point taken. I had my memories. To me, it was the same old Central Hotel Id lunched in and danced in. I quite enjoyed the evening. Ian Rankin,... Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies. Ian Rankin, The Black Book //
THE BLACK BOOK. (1993). Ian Rankin. **1/2.About one-third of the way through this novel by Rankin, I made a startling discovery: I could no longer remember the names of the various characters or what their roles in the story were. My reading fuse of 15 amps was blown out by the 20 amp supply of personalities. This is called supplier... I had read my last Ian Rankin book a long time ago, and as far as I remember that one was a collection of short stories, which I didnt particularly enjoy. And, if I stretch my mind even further back to the novel that I had read before that, I can hardly remember its name or what it was about. In short, Ian Rankin, though a celebrated... Detective Rebus in ScotlandThis is a story of a search for what happened in an old crime. The crime comes to light again when Rebus' detective gets hit on the head and is n a coma and Rebus begins to read the junior detective's little black book of notes. He realized his detective was onto something and begins investigating the old...
