Set in Darkness

Set in Darkness - Ian Rankin Enjoyed this Rebus mystery very much. There's such an extraordinary sense of place, especially for someone who has lived (if only for a year) in Edinburgh. This is a Scotland I don't know very well, in the throes of political change and the creation of the Scottish Parliament, but in another sense it's a Scotland I know very well indeed, particularly the character types. Nothing very startling about the premise; two murders, decades apart, both with bodies dumped on the site of the new Parliament, both the result of greed, corporate and underworld. The continuing too-close-for-comfort relationship between Rebus and Ger Cafferty is still a source of the most dramatic and chilling moments; something I miss in the new non-Rebus books. Could have done without Rebus' dalliance with one of the minor female characters; it didn't seem to add much, although I suppose, along with the drinking he can't give up, it's part of the disintegration Rankin so faithfully described.