Knots and Crosses: Amazon.ca: Ian Rankin: Books

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While investigating a series of gory killings of young, innocent girls, Edinburgh police detective John Rebus discovers his own ties to the killer and is brought up against his own memories. Reprint. AB. K.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Beginning Of A GREAT Series, Dec 11 2001

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Vicky J. Shultz "Vicky In Missouri" (Hannibal, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Knots and Crosses (Mass Market Paperback)

Someone is strangling children in Edinburgh. Inspector John Rebus starts receiving what he thinks are crank letters, each enclosing a small neatly tied knot. While investigating the serial strangler, Rebus takes the reader with him on a tour of the seedy side of Scotland's second city. Along the way we learn that Rebus has lost his marriage, has forgotten how to communicate with his young daughter, drinks too much and feels and acts the loner. We meet the other detectives and minor characters that flesh out the story so well. While Rebus starts to see where all the clues are pointing, the reader is completely drawn into the story. Rankin set out to write a modern day parallel to Jekyll and Hyde, not a crime fiction book at all. But the result is the beginning of the best mystery series I've yet to read. Inspector Rebus is fascinating enough to carry a book by himself, but the mystery is absorbing, thought-provoking and makes this book a fast paced page turner. I can't recommend this book highly enough. Ian Rankin has penned a masterpiece with this series. I hope you will read them all.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Knots and Crosses, Mar 25 2003

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Daniel Hodges (Fort McMurray, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Knots & Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel #1 (Paperback)

The first book by Ian Rankin and the first to feature Inspector John Rebus. I must admit to being more interested in good characters than clever story lines but this has both. Rebus is a fascinatingly human protaganist who you just want to find out more about. Fortunatley there are a dozen Rebus novels in which to get to know him better.
Well worth the read.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not his best, but still intriguing, May 22 2002

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Isabella K. Badenoch "izi" (Vientiane, Lao PDR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Knots and Crosses (Mass Market Paperback)

What can one write about Rankin? The creator of Inspector Rebus? This is one in his long series of Rebus novels and of course it is intriguing and great. It's not the best of his novels, my favorite is "Black & Blue" to date, but they are all really great mysteries.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Bored to Death in New Hampshire
I hated this book. At least fifteen people must have recommended Rankin to me, but I found the prose sludgy and the plot generally uninteresting, and, as in other of his books,... Read more

Published on April 7 2002

4.0 out of 5 stars Maybe not your run-of-the-mill procedural
Interesting. I had heard of Rankin in passing but I watched an interview with him in July. I had to give him a try. Read more

Published on Dec 24 2001 by Michael Allison