A Heart Full of Headstones: The Gripping New Must-Read Thriller from the No.1 Bestseller Ian Rankin

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It’s the best book for a while in this series and with a surprise ending it seems well set-up for a follow-up story, which is likely to include a couple of new and interesting characters. While the clerk of court reads out the charges, Rebus’ mind drifts to the events that led him there. Rankin is a sublime storyteller and as you read you gain a detailed picture of so many of the characters. Malcolm Fox (he who once had his own series) also makes an appearance, which in my eyes is a little less welcome.

Rebus’ brother for example, who’s alive and kicking, hurray, in this version of events, is a really interesting character, Siobhan’s there and Malcolm Fox, and there’s that thing about is she on Rebus’ side or is she going to have to take Rebus down cos he keeps breaking, er bending,” he corrects, “the rules too much. In The Rise , Rankin is back with a bang—this time in London, on the edge of Hyde Park, the heartland of some of the richest and most powerful people in the UK. With fresh characters, female lead DS Gish and sidekick older male detective Milton, The Rise, is designed to be read in a single sitting and a luxury high rise development in London is the setting for a fast-paced race to find a killer. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages and have been adapted for radio, the stage and the screen. Best know for his Rebus series, they deliver hard-boiled crime with a distinct Scottish flavour - sometimes cheesily referred to as "Tartan Noir".In Ian Rankin's latest addition to his Scottish crime series featuring the Edinburgh based retired, in poor health, Detective John Rebus is wonderfully intricate and complex, with a barnstormer of a beginning in which Rebus is in court, shockingly in the dock, but we are given no hint as to what he is charged with. The Reverend Richard Coles gives us a serpent in England's pastoral Eden - and whodunit fans can give praise and rejoice. I thought that was it, but it seems there is still enough bluster and doggedness in John Rebus for the series to continue.

The Rise is set in London, on the edge of Hyde Park, among the residences of some of the richest and most powerful people in the UK. Favourite reads of the year included Don Paterson’s Toy Fights, Nick Cave’s Faith, Hope and Carnage, Joanne Harris’s Broken Light, John Niven’s O Brother, Michael J Malone’s The Murmurs, Julie Hamill’s Frank, S. As fans of Rebus know he doesn’t always do things the right way but he does do them for the right reasons. Rankin wove a very intricate tale about these residents which set this armchair detective in many different directions very quickly. As DS Gish continues her investigation into 'The Rise', it seems horribly certain that one of the residents must be the killer.

The deceased is the twenty-two-year-old concierge at The Rise, a twelve-story luxury apartment building in London. An unsparing yet sympathetic depiction of Edinburgh’s ignored underclass, with terrific characterisation.