Mortal Causes
A Thriller, Detective, European Literature book. The Scottish vernacular is rich in colourful euphemisms for inebriation: stocious, stotting,...
In Edinburgh you're never far from a peaceful spot, or from a hellish one either. Now, in the heart of summer, in the midst of a nationalist festival, Inspector John Rebus is on the murder case of a young man left hanging in a spot where his screams would never be heard. To find the victim's identity--and his killer--Rebus searches from Edinburgh's most violent neighborhood to Belfast, Northern Ireland--amongst petty thugs, gunrunners, and heavyweight criminals. But before Rebus can get to the truth, he's bloodied by the dream of society's madmen--and staring into the glint of...
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- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780752877204 / 752877208
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The Scottish vernacular is rich in colourful euphemisms for inebriation: stocious, stotting, guttered, steaming, steamboats, wellied and hoolit are just a few. Another is mortal, as in I was fair mortal last night (meaning I was very drunk indeed). So Mortal Causes evoked, in my mind, the demon drink, just as surely as it did any darker and more violent imagery. Ian Rankin, Mortal Causes //
Another excellent entry in the Rebus series. The story opens with the cold blooded execution of a young man. Rebus is assigned the case and soon discovers that the victim is the son of his long time nemisis Big Ger Cafferty. Even with Cafferty in jail he is able to apply pressure on Rebus to find the killer. While this is going on Rebus... Man, I don't think of myself as a dummy, but I had a hard time following the Irish and Scottish politics in here, in addition to the slang etc....I'm an Ian Rankin (and Rebus fan) but this one was a little bit hard for me on that front. I'm reading these books completely out of order, but I think it's pretty obvious they improve with age. Mortal Causes was good, not great, not quite as complex as later books and more focused on Rebus than Siobhan or other supporting characters. There was also room for a character or two drawn in with a fairly broad brush for Rankin.I...
