Ian Rankin. (2005). Fleshmarket Alley: An Inspector Rebus Novel. Little, Brown and Company.

Ian Rankin. 2005. Fleshmarket Alley: An Inspector Rebus Novel. Little, Brown and Company.

Ian Rankin, Fleshmarket Alley: An Inspector Rebus Novel. Little, Brown and Company, 2005.

Ian Rankin. Fleshmarket Alley: An Inspector Rebus Novel. Little, Brown and Company, 2005.

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An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme. Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. But as Rebus investigates, he must deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and maybe even fall in love.

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     January 10, 2005
     The Edinburgh of Insp. John Rebus has more than its share of violent crimes involving drugs and gangs, but there's always another layer of institutional vice and corruption. As Rebus says, "e spend most of our time chasing something called 'the underworld,' but it's the overworld
     we should really be keeping an eye on." In Edgar-winner Rankin's 15th novel to feature the moody, dogged detective (after 2004's A Question of Blood
     ), a Kurdish refugee's death in a dreary housing estate leads Rebus into a labyrinthine plot involving a modern-day version of the slave trade. As has been the trend in recent Rebus novels, colleague Siobhan Clarke assumes a more central role, this time investigating the disappearance of the sister of a rape victim who later committed suicide. These mysteries begin to intertwine when Rebus and Clarke are called to a pub on Fleshmarket Close where two skeletons have been exhumed. As always, Rankin is deft with characterization and wit, but here he juggles too many narrative balls. The story lines are slow to gestate, and their complexity undermines the book's momentum. Still, Rebus remains one of the more compelling characters in crime fiction—and Rebus's Edinburgh one of the more compelling settings. Agent, Dominick Abel. (Feb. 2)
     
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     A seven-city author tour should help this internationally bestselling author break out in the U.S.

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     Starred review from March 7, 2005
     This abridgement of Rankin's 15th novel about Edinburgh police investigator John Rebus ends with an interview in which the author says he prefers to ignore abridgments. He should make an exception in this case. It's a particularly well-conceived adaptation that discards many of the book's more verbose passages and moves Rebus and his associate investigator Siobhan Clarke quickly into action. It also clarifies an overly complex plot that interweaves the possibly racist murder of an asylum-seeking Kurd; the disappearance of a young woman into the city's red light district; and the appearance of two skeletons uncovered during a pub renovation. Crucial series elements are not only retained but highlighted, such as Rebus's realization that, with his forced retirement approaching, his feeling for Clarke is taking a less platonic turn. Adding to the production's overall appeal is reader MacPherson, whose Scottish burr, though pronounced enough to make Sean Connery sound like a pommy Brit, complements Rankin's well-etched cast of Edinburgh denizens. In a display of vocal versatility, he easily segues from male to female, from members of the upper crust to bottom feeders, from guttural Kurds of varying ages to an Asian lawyer with a Far Eastern lilt. His bravura performance, added to the canny editing, results in satisfying proof that less can be more. Simultaneous release with the Little, Brown hardcover (Forecasts, Jan. 10).

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     October 15, 2004
     Rankin regular John Rebus has gone to the fleshpots to investigate murder. With a seven-city author tour.

     Copyright 2004 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from December 1, 2004
     Edinburgh copper John Rebus has spent his life mucking about among the city's lowlifes, so much so that he often feels more kinship with the crooks he chases than he does with the new generation of cookie-cutter organization men and women who inhabit the more respectable tiers of Scottish society. His hard-won assumptions about the world are transformed, however, by his latest case, forcing Rebus, the hardest of hardened cynics, to exclaim in horror, "What in Christ's name is happening here?" It starts with the murder of an "asylum-seeker"--an illegal immigrant hoping to be granted political asylum but forced to live in a virtual prison while the lumbering Scottish bureaucracy determines his fate. As Rebus begins to dig into the murder, he is confronted by the new face of racism, twenty-first-century style: a government, unwilling to deal with the immigration problem, outsourcing "detention housing" to American prison-for-profit companies; a citizenry determined "to alienate what they cannot understand"; and a criminal underworld quick to capitalize on opportunity by entering the booming business of "people smuggling." All of these forces come together in an Edinburgh public-housing project, where racial tensions are at the breaking point, and where the people-smuggling industry thrives. Rankin, who has spent years developing Rebus' hard-bitten character, now brilliantly portrays the man forced to confront his own sensitivity. This is a superb crime novel, a pivotal entry in a uniformly fascinating series, and a remarkably perceptive analysis of the contemporary immigration dilemma at its most achingly human level.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2004, American Library Association.)

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     January 15, 2005
     After taking a detour with a thriller featuring a female assassin ("Witch Hunt"), the Edgar Award-winning Rankin returns to the gritty police procedurals that made his name. When the body of a Kurdish refugee is found in Knoxland, a housing estate in one of Edinburgh's poorer neighborhoods, Inspector John Rebus finds himself helping the investigation. Rebus and his sometime-partner DS Siobhan Clark have recently been relocated to Gayfield Station after their old station, St. Leonard's, was closed, but both officers end up working murder cases outside their new jurisdiction. In a strange coincidence, these two separate crimes are found to be connected to two skeletons discovered in a pub in their new precinct. In this hard-boiled crime novel, Rankin deftly explores Scottish attitudes towards refugees in Edinburgh today, and readers, like Rebus, may find their opinions changing as they learn more about the circumstances under which these desperate people live. Rankin's popular series remains as fresh and satisfying as ever, and this latest installment will leave fans wondering what the future holds for Rebus as he nears retirement. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ "10/15/04.] -Lisa O'Hara, Univ. of Manitoba Libs., Winnipeg

     Copyright 2005 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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