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A Song for the Dark Times is the 23rd installment in the Inspector Rebus series written by Ian Rankin.The phrase "dark times" was meant to refer to the era of Brexit, autocratic leaders, and so on, as of 2019, but the book was published in 2020, in a period of COVID-19 lockdowns. [1]
"A Song for the Dark Times" by Ian Rankin; Little, Brown (336 pages, $27) ___ Retirement has never fit former Edinburgh police Inspector John Rebus. His life has revolved around solving crimes ...
In A Song for the Dark Times (2020) she is the one who helps Rebus move downstairs to his new ground floor flat. She is more willing and able than Rebus to incorporate technology into her work, and in The Falls (2001) she pursues a killer through an email correspondence while Rebus explores historical parallels. She is also more cautious than ...
A Heart Full of Headstones is the 24th installment in the Inspector Rebus series written by Ian Rankin. The title comes from the song "Single Father" by Jackie Leven, four lines of which are quoted on the last page of the novel. [1] The novel is set during the period when COVID-19 is a threat but lockdown has ended, probably in 2022. [2]
She is sometimes mistaken for his daughter and in A Song for the Dark Times performs the daughterly task of helping him move house. Around the time of retirement, and during the pandemic lockdown especially, Rebus's constant companion is a dog named Brillo. Brillo features prominently in A Heart Full of Headstones.
In these, titled "Ian Rankin's Hidden Edinburgh" and "Ian Rankin Investigates Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," Rankin looks at the origins of the character and the events that led to his creation. In the TV show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations , he takes a trip through Edinburgh with writer/cook Anthony Bourdain .
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Outlander season 7, episode 16, "A Hundred Thousand Angels.". There might be more Frasers in the world than even Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam ...
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.