A Song for the Dark Times: The Brand New Must-Read Rebus Thriller

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There is some interesting stuff about POW camps in Scotland during the war as the history of that time becomes very relevant to Rebus’s enquiries, but Rankin never overdoes it.

A Saudi student, Salman bin Mahmoud, the son of a businessman under house arrest, has been stabbed on Seafield Road, not the most picturesque part of Edinburgh. DS Robin Creasey is the local police officer in charge of the missing person case, and it is Rebus who finds Keith's dead body at an old internment Camp 1033, a place that Keith and a local group had been interested in the history of, and wanted to preserve. And all the time it was happening, I was thinking: this is what my Dad used to do; this is how he spent his working life. What follows is alternating chapters between the organized and fully resourced investigation in Edinburgh and the rather country-bumpkin style one in the Highlands.By his own admission, Rebus was not a very good husband or father and he always let his job take precedence over his family responsibilities. podcast για το αστυνομικό βιβλίο με δύο καλεσμένους, η δε τύπισσα που έχει γράψει από τα χειρότερα ελληνικά αστυνομικά εκτός του ότι είπε αυτές τις δηθενιές για πολιτικό περιεχόμενο στο αστυνομικό (να έχει και πολιτικό περιεχόμενο μάνα μου, αλλά ξερωγω να ασχολείται και ο αστυνομικός λίγο με την υπόθεση, έτσι για ξεκάρφωμα λέω εγώ), είπε ότι συμβουλεύται και δύο αστυνομικούς για αυτά που γράφει (λογικά κάποιον της Τροχαίας.

John Rebus' flat in Marchmont, an area he’d lived in for most of his adult life (and also this entire series), was being emptied out. There is nothing that Rebus will not do for Sammy, despite their rocky relationship and her young daughter, Carrie, setting off in his rickety old Saab, listening to a CD music compilation put together for him by Siobhan, under the title of 'Songs for the Dark Times'. Rebus thought again of the books he decided he couldn’t live without, even if he would never read them; the albums he played maybe once or twice a decade but still clung to; the boxes of case files that seemed a veritable part of him, like an extra limb.Throw in a blackmailing nightclub owner, a wellness centre with offbeat types, an old WWII POW camp with secrets, and a philandering husband of a senior cop, just to add flavour to the story.