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The Hanging Garden

The number one bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS

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 DI Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork but an escalating dispute between the upstart Tommy Telford and Big Ger Cafferty's gang gives Rebus an escape clause.

Telford is known to have close links with a Chechen gangster bringing refugees into Britain as prostitutes. When Rebus takes under his wing a distraught Bosnian call girl, it gives him a personal reason to make sure Telford goes back to Paisley and pronto.

Then Rebus' daughter is the victim of an all too professional hit-and-run and Rebus knows that there is now nothing he won't do to bring down prime suspect Tommy Telford - even if it means cutting a deal with the devil.

Read by Bill Paterson

(p) 1999 Orion Publishing Group©1998 John Rebus Ltd Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Traditional Detectives Suspense

Critic reviews

They call his work crime fiction, but the adjective is superfluous ... these novels are totally absorbing. Once I start reading one, all else goes by the board till I have finished it
No one in Britain writes better crime novels today
Rankin's handling of the gangland plot, culminating in a sting designed to entrap the multi-national mobsters as they raid a huge drug-making plant is masterly
An addictive writer ... a remarkable talent
No one writes more gripping stories than Rankin
One of British crime writing's greatest characters: alongside Holmes, Poirot and Morse
Ian Rankin is a genius (Lee Child)
All stars
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I am a fan of Rebus on audio book having missed him on TV. This abridged story catches all the nuances which you might expect in the complete version and certainly gives lots of false clues! (An unabridged version would get five stars.) Bill Paterson catches the tone of the Edinburgh / Scottish people.

Up to Rankin's High Standard

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Unfortunately I didn’t connect with the narrator which resulted in a disappointing experience. Will consider this for any future purchases.

Disappointing Narration

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have listen a d really enjoy whole rebus collection but narrator change is shocking

awful change in narrator

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