I didn't enjoy the last couple of Inspector Rebus novels that I read, but the reviews for this - the final Rebus novel - made me try again. And the reviews were right. This is a really good book.It was, however, slightly odd reading it immediately after the Kate Atkinson novel, because they're both detective stories set in Edinburgh. It felt like moving on to a sequel.
It's set in the last week of Rebus's career before he retires. He wants to tie up various loose ends and he feels even less need than usual to kow-tow to anyone in authority. So when a dissident Russian poet is murdered at the same time as a visit from some high-powered Russian businessmen he is in no mood to placate politicians and plutocrats and gets suspended. Then when his nemesis, Big Ger Cafferty, gets brutally attacked, Rebus is suspected...
All good fun, and very well written.
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