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Original Title:	Exit Music
ISBN:	0752868608 (ISBN13: 9780752868608)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Inspector Rebus #17, Inspector Rebus #17
Characters:	Siobhan Clarke, "Big Ger" Cafferty, Inspector John Rebus
Setting:	Edinburgh, Scotland
Literary Awards:	Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Nominee (2009)

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Written as though it was possibly the last in a long and excellent series. Now of course we know it was far from the final book about Rebus, thank goodness!

I love Inspector Rebus. He takes no nonsense from anyone, largely prefers to work on his own, or at least with just DS Clarke, and by the age of sixty is growing increasingly cranky with life and everything. He is also very smart and sees connections between events long before anyone else does.

In Exit Music Rebus is working his final week before retirement and only he could manage to get himself suspended from duty in his last few days. Of course he redeems himself at the last moment. I was delighted with myself when I guessed one of the attackers very early in the piece but it might have been because I did not like the character and wanted it to be him!

I really enjoyed this book. It was long but it powered along with a series of events and lots of police work. There was a lot of humour too in the relationship and dialogue between Rebus and Siobhan.
Moving on now to the next book to see how well Rebus is coping with retirement. I expect the answer to be he is not.

Details Regarding Books Exit Music (Inspector Rebus #17)

Title	:	Exit Music (Inspector Rebus #17)
Author	:	Ian Rankin
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	2007 by Orion
Categories	:	Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Cultural. Scotland. Thriller. Detective. Mystery Thriller

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What did I learn from this book? Easy. Don't come into a series on the 16th and final book. Why, you may ask? Because apparently the primary characters in the book have a long and complex history of which I was ignorant. And the author did little to bring a novice reader up to speed. I was urged to read this book by a long-time reader of Ian Rankin, who, apparently, also read them in order. Anyway, the book takes place in Scotland in 2006 as Detective Inspector John Rebus is facing imminent

This is the seventeenth and allegedly last book in Ian Rankin's excellent series featuring Edinburgh Inspector John Rebus. Rebus was already nearly sixty years old before his creator was stunned to discover that sixty was the mandatory retirement age for detectives in Scotland. Accordingly, this book finds Rebus in the autumn of the year and of his career as well.Rebus has ten days do go when Alexander Todorov, a Russian poet, is brutally murdered after a reading. To all appearances Todorov was

Written as though it was possibly the last in a long and excellent series. Now of course we know it was far from the final book about Rebus, thank goodness!I love Inspector Rebus. He takes no nonsense from anyone, largely prefers to work on his own, or at least with just DS Clarke, and by the age of sixty is growing increasingly cranky with life and everything. He is also very smart and sees connections between events long before anyone else does.In Exit Music Rebus is working his final week

This is it. Rebus is over. For the first time, anyway. Rankin famously was not a fan of the TV versions of his work, and retired Rebus until the option expired. That's how we ended up with two standalone Malcolm Fox novels before Rebus shows back up to cause a ruckus.So now you have to read Exit Music in the knowledge that it's not the end, but was intended as a possible end. It works pretty well on that front, although it would have left a lot of people dangling over the precipice as Rankin

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.--- Before I get into this, last week my son was playing some EASports game -- FIFA something, I think. Anyway, I notice that he's playing Hiberian, and my first thought is, "Hey, that's Siobhan's team." That's a sign that I'm probably reading too many Rebus novels, right? Anyway, on with this post...No sign of any abandoned cars in the multistory?Good point, Shiv, Ill have someone check. Talk to you later. The phone went dead, and she managed

I fell into a touch of luck with the selection of this book to read having just read A Gentleman in Moscow. I like it when I can follow a theme. The 17th Rebus book kicks off with notice that it will soon be Christmas (another apropos theme considering the date) and Rebus will soon be retiring after decades of police work. The focus of his final week of work is the investigation of a brutal murder of a Russian poet. The book can be enjoyed as stand alone. The working relationship between Rebus

"That was that, then. End of the line, end of the job. These past weeks, he'd been trying so hard not to think about it - throwing himself into other work, any work. For three decades now this job of his had sustained him, and all it had cost him was his marriage and a slew of friendships and shattered relationships. No way he was ever going to feel like a civilian again; too late for that; too late for him to change. He would become invisible to the world..." And so it ends. Exit Music marks DI