Beat Goes On

The Complete Rebus Short Stories

No cover

Ian Rankin: Beat Goes On (2014, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)

464 pages

English language

Published Aug. 13, 2014 by Orion Publishing Group, Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-4091-5155-5
Copied ISBN!

View on OpenLibrary

4 stars (1 review)

1 edition

Review of 'Beat Goes On' on 'GoodReads'

4 stars

I was surprised. Usually not a fan of short stories, I prefer to plunge in a book and soak in its atmosphere for a while, leaving it for a few hours and looking so much forward to returning to it.

In this book each single story is a whole book in miniature, Rankin is especially good at establishing the mood with just a few sentences, the characters sketched in few but efficient words.

Probably going to explore more short stories to see how other writers manage.

Subjects

  • Fiction, mystery & detective, short stories
  • Rebus, inspector (fictitious character), fiction
  • Edinburgh (scotland), fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural