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Standing in Another Man's Grave

A Rebus Novel

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Standing in Another Man's Grave

By: Ian Rankin
Narrated by: James Macpherson
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Winner of the 2013 Audible Sounds of Crime Award

Its 25 years since John Rebus appeared on the scene, and 5 years since he retired. But 2012 sees his return in Standing in Another Man’s Grave. Not only is Rebus as stubborn and anarchic as ever, but he finds himself in trouble with Rankin's latest creation, Malcolm Fox of Edinburgh's internal affairs unit. Added to which, Rebus may be about to derail the career of his ex-colleague Siobhan Clarke, while himself being permanently derailed by mob boss and old adversary Big Ger Cafferty. But all Rebus wants to do is discover the truth about a series of seemingly unconnected disappearances stretching back to the millennium.

The problem being, no one else wants to go there - and that includes Rebus's fellow officers. Not that any of that is going to stop Rebus. Not even when his own life and the careers of those around him are on the line.

James MacPherson played DCI Jardine in Taggart for 16 years, and has acted on stage in plays as diverse as The Taming of the Shrew and ART by Yasmina Reza. He has presented a regular books programme for Radio Scotland - for which he has interviewed Ian Rankin. He won a Spoken Word Gold Award for his reading of

Strip Jack, a Crimefest Audible UK Sounds of Crime Award for Doors Open and has narrated all the Ian Rankin Rebus books. James lives in Glasgow.©2012 John Rebus Ltd (P)2012 Orion Publishing Group Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Private Investigators Traditional Detectives Scotland Crime
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I am a great Rebus fan and was of course delighted to see him back, but I must admit I was a little disappointed with this book. I felt that by combining Malcolm Fox and Rebus neither of them was really done justice. Towards the end I even found my interest in the eventual solution flagging somewhat. However, to be fair, Rankin has set the bar very high in the past, and this book was enjoyable, just not quite up to his usual brilliant standard.

Pretty good

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It was like slipping into a pair of well worn slippers moulded to personal expectation.Same old Rebus ...drinking more malt than usual,laughing in the face of the smoking ban and with his customary disdain for authority.I felt the plot line was promising weaving old faces ,sworn enemies and a new nemesis in Malcolm Fox.Rebus ploughs a familiar lone furrow in true "vinyl" fashion outclassing the "digital" competition.Ending had me slightly troubled but delighted to spend more time with this particular grumpy pensioner!

John Rebus back...

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The newly retired Rebus is as sharp and flawed as ever. I have enjoyed the Complaints duo but this is more like Rankin of old.

Good to have Rebus back

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I enjoyed this latest outing of Rebus. However, I did find the ending a bit more far fetched than I can usually allow for. What did put me off this was the narrator's voice for Sibhoan, he made her sound like one of the royal family!

Enjoyable

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Retired detective Rebus re enters the scene but is unenthusiastic about having to work again on some unsolved cases. When a local girl disappears, the trail leads John and his faithful companions in many directions before finally untangling the mess. The bodies of other missing women are found and John carefully unpicks the details until he finds the end. Old criminals, and new, put him to the test. Gripping and clever. Rebus is reborn and back to what he does best.

Rebus, reborn

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