I'd always hated how the last Rebus novel, Exit Music, ended on a cliff hanger even if the cliff hanger was whether Big Ger Cafferty would live or die. Fortunately Ian Rankin has decided to revisit his best creation.
Set several years after Exit Music we find Rebus still working for the Scottish Police, but in a civilian capacity in the cold case squad. But he's still the same old Rebus drinking, smoking and thumbing his nose at authority. But a case about a missing girl catches his interest and, in typical Rebus fashion, he's determined to get to the bottom of it come hell or high water. His old sidekick Siobhan Clark is back too, now a Detective-Inspector. There's also a subplot involving Rebus wanting to rejoin the force and Rankin's more recent creation, DI Malcolm Fox of the Complaints Department's attempts to stop it. There's obviously some history between the two but I don't recall them ever having met in any of the earlier Rebus books so it's something I'd love to see explored more.
Yep, Rebus is back. Hope Rankin decided to write a few more Rebus novels before he retires for good.
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