Two novels ago, Rebus was on his way to retirement, but he proves too resilient, and too ornery, for that. He lives in the real world in real time, aging as the years go by (and none too gracefully!) and confronting the many changes in Scotland as it grows ever-richer from North Sea oil.His dialogue with his longtime partner (now his superior), Siobhan (“Shiv”) Clarke, is so palpably believable that you can picture yourself in the room hearing their conversation.He is delightfully contrarian, always finding openings to new perspectives in the cracks between revealed facts, and thus he often surprises.Let us count the ways that Ian Rankin‘s anti-social Scottish police detective, John Rebus, is worth following, book after book ( Saints of the Shadow Bible is the 19th in the Rebus series):
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