A Question of Blood

My first Ian Rankin novel about his famed Inspector Rebus. It was a reasonably pleasurable way of passing the time, but I can’t say that this procedural over-inspired me, and I don’t see myself rushing to buy the rest of the Rebus novels. Certainly not at full price anyway.
There’s been a Dunblane type attack in a school and the murders don’t really make sense. Alongside that, Rebus is suspected of murder himself. The novel does a perfectly good job of telling the reader enough about a detective that many of its readers will be massively familiar with. This is what I always find trickiest about longrunning series of books – how to keep them accessible to new readers whilst not annoying diehard fans. I can’t really say how well this latter works until I’ve read some other books. Overall – so-so.


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