Customer Reviews
Excellent character and stories - By: GeeJayBee, 22 Jul 2008 
This was my first exposure to Ian Rankin & to the Rebus character. I am a big fan of P.D. James & these stories are on a par.
From the off both the storylines & the Rebus character are developedin an interesting & sustained way. Each book gets better & more complex, with very good continuing arcs & strands.
I have since bough just about all Rankin's other books & am enjoying them immensely.
Thoroughly recommended.
excellent reading and great value for money - By: Jenny PT, 02 Jan 2008 three terrific books which I thoroughly enjoyed. First time I ever read Rankin, but I think I shall read more. Humorous, with some terrible puns & lines which were a great contrast to the dark plot. First rate & the 3 books for just over a tenner is great value.
Completely Hooked - By: A. Weston, 12 Dec 2003 
Rebus is deeply addictive & grows more interesting with every book. I've worked my way through the more cut-and-dried novels of the Early Years & have just moved swiftly through these "Three Great Novels". For the moment I don't think I can easily envisage inhabiting any other world than this dour Scot's. I was much amused by the sectionin Strip Jack where he finds an old lady who keeps the phone box near her house as a miniature version of her own starched front parlour - a nice piece of human observation - if you are the nearest house to the phone box & it is ill kept it reflects badly upon you. The remote Scottish hamlet where my grandparents lived featured just such a phone box complete with busy-body crone who kept the directoryin her house - you'd have to knock on her door & tell her the name you wanted & she would go & look it up & then give it too you on a wee scrap of paper. My mother always said she was a great loss to the intelligence services, although her surveillance was far from discreet. I wonder whether Rankin knows this same village or if it is a particular highland phenomenon. Great fun though,in a dricht & drear kind of way.
Rankin is GOD - By: M. R. Mccafferty, 17 Dec 2002 Great read. I started the Rebus collection with Setin Darkness & could not stop , i had to go & buy every other bookin the series & haven't been let down.
Best to start on Rebus : The Early Years which will give you a better insight to the characters involved because most will appearin later books.
Go read !!
Three of Rankin's finest in one book - By: , 06 Feb 2002 Once again Rankin surpasses himself. Books four, five & sixin one volume. Extremely good value for money (especially if you're Scottish!). Each tale twists & turns, whilst all the time leaving you wondering .... who dunnit. Reubus (and Rankin) never fail you.
