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Resurrection. It\u2019s not all good news. John Rebus finds himself up the creek with a toothpick for a paddle, sent to reform school after he throws a tea cup at his boss Gil Templer. It\u2019s the last chance saloon, and Rebus knows something about saloons. The men sent to the police reform academy are called \u2018resurrection men\u2019. They have one last chance to save their careers, to raise them from the dead. <\/p>\n

Ian Rankin\u2019s thirteenth novel in the Rebus series is something different. For one thing, Rebus is out of commission, or at least not front and center, and it is a nice change to have Siobhan Clarke be the central character in one of these novels, though of course Rebus can\u2019t help helping her. Officially, Rebus is supposed to be playing nice with other cops at reform school, solving a cold case, which then becomes a hot case, when the supposedly deceased person turns up alive, and then dead again! Talk about resurrection. But in fact, Rebus is a mole of the chief constable, trying to catch dirty cops sent to the reform school. There are all kinds of plots in this novel\u2014 garden plots, communist plots, sub plots\u2014 you name it. Siobhan (pronounced Shi-vaughn) is up to her eyeballs and paddling hard trying to figure out who killed a famous art dealer. Meanwhile, once again, the tentacles of that Napoleon of crime in this series\u2014 Big Ger Cafferty, seem everywhere she turns. Are the various plots actually all interwoven? Does John Rebus have more lives than Morris the cat? Oh wait\u2026 its the gangster Cafferty whose name is Morris! <\/p>\n

Though after a while crime novels all have a certain sameness to them, never the less, what makes this series so enjoyable is the development of the major characters over time, and the fact that Rankin is smart enough to keep certain central characters going in these novels, chiefly\u2014 Rebus Clarke, the CID Gil Templer (a former Rebus flame), and Big Ger. Whether Rebus manages to revive his career, and get back in Gil Templer\u2019s good graces is anyone\u2019s guess, and this novel does keep you guessing to the end\u2014 which it part of the fun. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"