345 pages

English language

Published Dec. 20, 2015

ISBN:
978-1-4091-5937-7
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OCLC Number:
927413309

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4 stars (4 reviews)

Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is investigating the death of a senior lawyer during a robbery. But the case becomes more complex when a note is discovered, indicating that this may have been no random attack, and when local gangster Big Ger Cafferty receives an identical message, Clarke decides that the recently retired John Rebus may be able to help. He's the only man Cafferty will open up to, and together the two old adversaries might just stand a chance of saving Cafferty's skin.

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Review of 'Even dogs in the wild' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Aside from needing a cast of characters to keep up with the sheer number of cops, robbers and entitled scum, this is Rankin on top form. If anything, I'm finally getting a feeling for Malcolm Fox and hope he gets a leading role in Rankin's next effort. This is all to detriment of Shiv, who could've easily had a lead in this tome, but was disappointingly downplayed in favour of caffrey and Christie - clearly a couple of goons who Rankin wants to inspect a little more

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Subjects

  • Inspector Rebus (Fictitious character)
  • Investigation
  • Murder
  • Fiction