false 205650 18 British title for "Fleshmarket Alley." <I>Fleshmarket Close</I> is not one of the best of Rankin's John Rebus thrillers, but his second-best is still more than excellent. Middle age is catching up with Rebus--he currently has no desk as a none-too-subtle hint from his superiors that he should seek retirement--but he and his friend and protegee Siobhan, who is still not his lover, race around investigating a variety of seemingly unconnected cases&#133; The sister of a dead rape victim is missing; stolen medical skeletons turn up embedded in a concrete floor; a Kurdish journalist is brutally killed; the son of a Glasgow ganglord has moved in to the Edinburgh vice scene.<p> Much of the book is dominated by two new settings--a sink estate divided between racist thugs and refugees, and a small town whose economy is dominated by an internment camp for those about to be deported; this is one of Rankin's preachier thrillers, but it is never less than intelligent and evocative in its descriptions of a contemporary squalor that spreads beyond the inner city. These are never quite orthodox police procedurals--Rebus' method is a little too like the standard private eye's way of wandering around being rude to people until something comes loose--but they have a deep seriousness about the way we live now that transcends mere noir moodiness.--<I>Roz Kaveney</I> 3274043 2004 Fleshmarket Close total:647|5:3|4:7|3:4|2:1|1:0| 647 2487 843 60 4 1 false false Wed Apr 22 00:15:29 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 00:17:43 -0700 2009 once 4 1 false false Sat Nov 29 06:48:48 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 06:50:49 -0800 2008 4 2 false false Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 19:30:13 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 16:04:48 -0700 2009
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Orion, 2004- U.K. Hardcover
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