Gain Standing In Another Mans Grave (Inspector Rebus, #18) Presented By Ian Rankin Presented In Text

crime genre is filled with the drunken derelict, You all know the cv, he's a loner does not play well with others, making enemies, Usually he gets a long better with the people he is trying to put in prison, But he is not corrupt, no he's the knight errant of the mean streets, the slightly bent but strong moral compass.
He will have a string of ex wives and girl friends, he's not sexist, will get a leg over when ever possible, but it seems he relates better to the dead than the living.
And there is always a poison, usually drink, they are always alcohol sodden, But is when drunk they will get the result, with a whole of detritus in their wake,

I have described about half the main characters of crime fiction, Dave Robicheaux, Harry Hole, Harry Bosch, Joe Cashin, team of Kenzie and Gennaro, Anyone from a James Elroy novel, John Rebus, Gene Hunt, and of course the Granddaddy Philip Marlowe, and the great granddaddy Sherlock Holmes though he preferred opium.
So why do I keep going back to these characters I love them, I find them impossibly sexy, slightly bloated from their years of hard drinking, the permanent scowl, the arrogance, the emotional distance.
I would go there in a second, They are the bad boys with a heart of gold and heart disease, Gorgeous.

And the above John Rebus hero of 'Standing in another man's grave' is every cell of this character.
Though now he has to go outside to smoke, and is constantly smelling smelling of mints and fast food from lunch time sessions at the pub.
The fact that he is now my father's age does not deter me for a second,

I have not read a Rebus novel for maybeyears, and Rebus has aged with it, retired but still in the game.
It was nice to catch up with the other characters who suddenly flooded my memory, see how they were all doing.


This is a smart crime novel, Rankin knows this character inside out, the writing is a lot more comfortable than in is first Malcolm Fox novel 'The Complaints' where he is still figuring him out.
He has been writing Rebus for aboutyears, There are a lot of balls in the air, which Rankin successfully juggles and intelligently, I liked how each character had their own drive and ambition which pushed the novel into different directions which keeps the reader on their toes.






Definitely one of Ian Rankins best, This book made me appreciate him as a “writer” and not just a story teller,

Read soon after it was published, before I joined Goodreads, sitelinkIan Rankin always writes good books and sitelinkStanding in Another Man's Grave is possibly one of his best.


John Rebus was retired from the Force at the end of the last book and in this one he is back in a kind of honorary role.
He is still in top form, just as difficult as ever, just as determined to do things his own way.
He is also very smart and very well connected with both ex cops and ex criminals from his long history as a police officer.
All these things keep him one step ahead of every one else and able to break the case first.


Rankin writes beautifully about Scotland and his descriptions are never superfluous or boring, His characters are all well written and his dialogue realistic and frequently funny, Rebus himself has a very dry wit and a very entertaining relationship with Siobhan Clarke,

sitelinkStanding in Another Man's Grave is not fast paced or full of action, It is an excellently well written police procedural which maintains the reader's interest from the first page to the last.
Rebus is back but I found this book a bit rambling, taking a long time to get

to any conclusion, with confusing subplots.
Rebus seems to do nothing butsmokedrink anddrive Up and down and across Scotland, Five years ago, Ian Rankin rocked the crime fiction world by retiring, to howls of protest, one of the most popular characters in the history of crime writing: curmudgeonly, anarchic yet noble Detective Inspector John Rebus of the Lothian and Borders Police.


But now Rebus is back, as part of a team of retired detectives who sift through cold cases, hoping to find something long overlooked.
He's tempted by a return to CID duties, thanks to a rise in the official retirement age, But does the police force, especially DI Malcolm Fox of Internal Affairs, want the maverick copper back While delving into a series of seemingly unrelated disappearances dating back more than a decade, Rebus stubbornly continues to put himself, and those around him, in jeopardy.


Sparks certainly fly in Standing in Another Man's Grave not just between Rankin's two series heroes, Rebus and Fox, but also Rebus and plenty of other people.
Series favourites like Siobhan Clarke and Ger Cafferty feature strongly in this pageturning story that also muses on the passing of time and an everchanging world.


A cracking crime novel that demonstrates that Rankin is still very much at the top of his game.




YESSSSS REBUS IS BACK,

Rebus, retired but on loan from SCRU a group of former detectives looking into cold cases happens into an investigation of multiple MisPers, women gone missing along the Ahighway.
Working partly within channels and mostly outside channels, Rebus is as bullheaded and irascible as usual as he digs deeper and finds links others have missed.
Meanwhile he is being investigated by Complaints Internal Affairs,

I am finding I like this return to police procedural without the gore and unsettling monologues of the criminally insane that has become the standard these days as mysteries move toward psychological suspense.
Ian Rankins Rebus series is one of the most popular mystery writers internationally, though he is not that well known in the US.
He is my favorite, and Rebus is my favorite detective, bar none, so my rating is probably higher than yours would be.


As always, Rebus' life has become more miserable than in the last book, He has been forced to retire and now is working in a cold case group, He misses the murder squad and his longtime partner Siobhan, which for several decades made up most of his life.


Rebus still walks around with his finger raised to authority, and they hate it just as much as always.
He's the kind of guy that many hate because he is brilliant at what he does, and they are not.
He seems to be drinking a little less than in the past, though he still sleeps many nights in his old armchair looking out on the streets of Edinburgh.
Speaking of which, every time I hear Edinburgh mentioned, I automatically wonder how Rebus is getting along, before I remember that he's not a real person.


Mr. Rankin stopped writing this series for about seven or eight years, and I was bereft, My only hope was that all his other readers would find his thriller novels a big bust like I did.
Finally, in January, my prayers were answered when Rankin buckled and a new Rebus novel was released,

I'm never happier than when riding around in Rebus' head, He's a darkly funny man who doesn't respect much but has a deep sense of justice, I was just reviewing another detective, Jonathon Rabb's Detective Hoffner, Hoffner solves puzzles Rebus seeks justice, Rebus and Hoffner both see that unsavory characters are just as complex as their own bosses, There is no black and white,

I don't think this is the best Rebus book, I've read every one twice and can't really pick out a favorite, The one that sticks in my mind the most is The Hanging Garden, but there are others I remember whose names I can't sort out.
Pick any one, and you might get hooked and ride around Scotland in Rebus' head, too, .