![]() ![]() ![]() Yet Rankin's dexterity in juggling plots and threats and motives lights up the darkness with a poet's grace. Rebus's eighth case ( Let It Bleed, 1996, etc.) is his biggest and most grueling so far. For even though Rebus is behind the eight-ball, another avenger-Bible John himself-is prepared to do whatever it takes to catch the copycat. ![]() Can things get any worse? Of course they can. When Rebus takes a few days in Aberdeen to visit the oil company's headquarters and incidentally chat up the locals about another of Johnny Bible's victims, he ends up under suspicion of killing a fourth victim himself and gets stuck with a minder who'll report his every move back to the very same Chief Inspector who's been put in charge of the Spaven case. Even though he knew one of Johnny Bible's victims, Edinburgh's Inspector John Rebus is in no position to take on this new case he's got his hands full with a murdered oil-rig painter and the threatened reopening of a case in which he and his mentor, Inspector Lawson Geddes, may have planted evidence years and years ago that framed Lenny Spaven, who went to his death insisting he was innocent. Johnny Bible, an equally perverted killer who seems to be much younger, is imitating him with a gusto that suggests close research. Nearly 30 years after a serial killer dubbed Bible John abruptly retired after three vicious murders, he's back in the news again. ![]()
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