It's always nice to return to a character that you've enjoyed reading before, and I always feel that any time with Inspector John Rebus is time well spent. In Resurrection Men, by Ian Rankin, the 13th book in the series, we see Rebus being sent to a kind of reform school for bad police officers. He is not alone. His fellow "bad apples" are known as resurrection men - as this is their last chance for redemption before they are shown the door. However, all is not as it seems, Rebus is actually working undercover to gain evidence against three of his classmates who are suspected of having organised a drugs heist. To try and build their teamwork skills, they are given an unsolved murder to work on ... a murder that may have resulted from Rebus's own mistake. Is this a coincidence? Meanwhile, DS Siobhan Clarke is investigating the murder of an art dealer. When it appears to have links with the case the resurrection men are working on, she and Rebus join forces. The more they dig, the deeper the trouble they get into and the wider the implications are. Are the usual suspects still pulling the strings, or are new and unknown elements muscling in? As always, Ian Rankin gives the reader great characters, pithy dialogue, oodles of suspense with a plethora of twisty turns that illicit page turning well into the small hours. I know Rebus would be a nightmare to live with, but I know who I'd want on my side if I was in trouble!
My STAR rating: FOUR.
Length: 484 print pages.
Price I paid: free, borrowed from my husband.
Formats available: print, unabridged audio, ebook.
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