Knots and Crosses

Knots and Crosses is the first book in the Inspector Rebus series done by Ian Rankin. I just finished The Dark Tower series by Stephen King and was looking for another author to try out. I'm not much for mystery/detective books but I heard great reviews about Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series. So I bought it, read it, and was very glad I spent the money and time to be introduced to a mystery/detective series I actually... Read Full Review

He had wanted to update Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" for modern times, Ian Rankin writes about his first Inspector Rebus novel, "Knots and Crosses" in the introduction to the British compilation "Rebus: The Early Years" (unfortunately, not available in the U.S.), which contains the first three installments of the series. Oblivious to the mere existence of such a thing as the mystery genre - or so Rankin... Read Full Review

The series featuring DS John Rebus has been around for a while and is very popular in the UK.Therefore I decided to pick up the first novel. I was very surprised indeed. It is a very strong,dark and gloomy thriller set against the unusual background of Edinburgh. The DS is a drop out of the army's elite unt, SAS and has become a veteran policeman."A good, but not very good one"according to his boss.The city is haunted by... Read Full Review

Ian Rankin gets better every time I read another one of his books. After reading "Knots and Crosses", I felt like I had seen it on TV or video, his descriptions were so vivid! The main character is so very human and not always loveable, but understandable nevertheless. Inspector Rebus is a divorced Scot, a Policeman with an ex-wife and 11 year old daughter. He has the usual troubles and has been compared to other English... Read Full Review

What a pleasure it is to discover an untapped mystery series. It was almost purely by chance that I picked up Ian Rankin's Knots and Crosses, but it will be with eagerness that I pursue the other books about John Rebus of the Edinburgh police force.Knots and Crosses is in part a classic police procedural that takes place in the seamy side of Edinburgh that guidebooks never show and that tourists never suspect. The hunted... Read Full Review