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In a series of books and short stories by Ian Rankin, beginning with Knots and Crosses published in 1987 and ending with Exit Music in 2007, John Rebus is a detective in the Lothian and Borders Police force, stationed in Edinburgh. After the first book, he is promoted from Detective Sergeant to Detective Inspector.
Exit Music is the seventeenth crime novel in the internationally bestselling Inspector Rebus series, written by Ian Rankin. It was published on 6 September 2007. It was published on 6 September 2007. The book is named after the Radiohead song " Exit Music (For a Film) ".
The action of The Complaints takes place on February 3-24, 2009, with the days specified by the book's sections. Dividing a larger number of chapters into groupings under the date and day of the week is a practice Rankin used in the two previous Rebus novels, The Naming of the Dead (July 1-9, 2005, the week of the real-life G8 Summit in Edinburgh) and Exit Music (November 15-27, 2006, roughly ...
Reviewers expressed strong but sometimes qualified enthusiasm for the book. Stuart Kelly, in The Scotsman, commented: “But piecing [the solutions] together balances readerly patience with the impetus of the plot” and “ There is a general feeling that everything is going to hell in a handcart” without any bright notes except Rebus’s sheer ability to survive. [4]
The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Short Stories is an anthology of all the Inspector Rebus short stories (30) by Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin, plus the novella Death Is Not the End; though the Rebus short story "Well Shot" published in 2nd Culprit (1993) is not included. It is Rankin's third collection of short stories.
Rankin/Bass Productions was an American production company, best known for its animated seasonal television specials. Television series and films pre-1974 are owned by NBCUniversal through DreamWorks Animation and post-September 1974 are owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment.
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In the Exile on Princes Street foreword to Rebus: The Early Years, Rankin says this was his second attempt at updating Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde into then-modern Edinburgh ("one reviewer 'got it'"), and with this book he began to like Rebus as a character and thought he could use him as a recurring mouthpiece for stories about his views on Scotland.