Entirely brilliant writing, these will endure because they are kind of timeless even as they keep up with the times. Each one is a fully immersive experience and rather than lessening in impact or quality they just grow in both those things.

Another Rankin classic. No one writes like him. Easy to read, intelligent and pacey. I couldn't put it down.

Both Rankin and Rebus are at their best in this, the 21st Rebus novel. There's a power shift in Edinburgh with Rebus' old adversary Cafferty thought to be out of the game and Darryl Christie's plans to take his place halted by a vicious beating from an unknown assailant. Meanwhile the murder of Maria Turquand years earlier floats back into Rebus' orbit and he finds himself investigating it in a strictly unofficial capacity. As with most Rebus novels the two tales become intermingled and the familiar figures of Siobhan Clarke and Malcolm Fox are also involved. There's a slightly different Rebus this time round, at the urging of his partner he's cut back the drinking and quit the smoking but there's also the niggling matter of the shadow on his lung which showed up on an X-ray. This hasn't slowed him down though, and one of my favourite elements of the book was Rebus' pilfering of Malcolm Fox's business card, his liberal use of it and the description of the look on Fox's face when he realised what he'd been doing. Fox has been an excellent addition to this series, The Complaints is one of my favourite Ian Rankin books and it was a genius move to bring him into the Rebus series. The relationship between Rebus and Cafferty is as fascinating as ever and the power shifts depending on who has the information and who needs it. There's so much room here for another book in a magnificent series that shows no signs of slowing down.

I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for a fair review.

Unfortunately this book was archived before I was able to read it, however, I have read many of Ian Rankins books previously and I thoroughly enjoyed them.

Saved this title as a treat for Christmas and boy was it a treat. Not many authors get better and better but Ian Rankin does

Reviewed online for Crime Review - link below.

This is an entertaining read, with the usual tussles between Siobhan and her former boss, plenty of laconic humour, and an uneasy sort of truce with Ger Cafferty, Rebus’s former nemesis.  Fox also emerges as a more complete and haunted character than I had previously given him credit for. The writing, as ever, economical, witty and sharp.