The reader doesn’t buy that story, and neither does Rebus, but he takes the job anyway. Cafferty asks Rebus to track down a former associate, to make amends for past wrongs supposedly. After an excursion to Scotland’s rural north coast in 2020’s A Song For The Dark Times, this novel sees Rebus back on the streets of Edinburgh in close combat with old adversary, Big Ger Cafferty, housebound and confined to a wheelchair but still capable of inflicting grievous harm. The reader can’t help joining longtime former workmate and best friend Siobhan Clarke in recalling him as he once was.įear not, there’s life in the old dog yet. As a result, these later novels have an elegiac, bittersweet quality. But his light is fading and his health is failing. In time, we discover just how bad his recent decisions have been.įrom his first outing in 1987 with Knots and Crosses, and especially from the breakthrough Black and Blue in 1997, Rebus has been crime fiction’s North Star.
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