Knots And Crosses: From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES

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Things haven't been good for John Rebus since his SAS days - he had joined to prove his worth to his unloving, indifferent father who did love his other son, Michael, much more than John.

The clues finally fall into place -- and Michael's hypnotic skills reveal the last pieces (another less than ideal plot device) -- and it comes down to one last, frantic hunt and show-down. Assigned to the Incidents room scouring over reports looking for possible leads in the investigation.Right from the start Rankin creates a bleak introspective tone for the novel and his protagonist quite clearly borrowed from Derek Raymond's Factory series, complete with the same Detective Sergeant rank as Raymond's anonymous cop and the same attitude towards his superiors/promotion. Everyone has something to hide A missing private investigator is found, locked in a car hidden deep in the woods. It's not just Rebus that suffers in comparison, the supporting cast are barely worth a mention, cut from the flimsiest of cardboard and relying on cliche, when the story is told from their point of view I lost interest and it doesn't really add anything to the novel except a bigger word count.

Los seguidores de Rankin dicen que esta no es su mejor novela, pero que hay que leerla para entender al personaje. Fifteen years, and all he had to show were an amount of self-pity and a busted marriage with an innocent daughter hanging between them. It also starts off overly slowly but starts zipping along once Rebus gets into the thick of the investigation. Unfortunately, Rebus can't think who might have a grudge against him, especially since he's blocked memories of his SAS days.When the plot's so simple (in one of the early chapters the killer becomes exasperated that Rebus hasn't identified him yet and we, the readers, can do nothing but nod and despondently shout 'yes, why haven't you? The higher up you climbed into crime, the more subtly you began to move back towards legitimacy, until a handful of lawyers could crack open your system, and they were always affordable, always on hand to be bribed.

p>Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. In addition to an unlikable main character, the supporting characters - coworkers, family and victims - were woefully underdeveloped.Gregor Jack, MP, well-liked, young, married to the fiery Elizabeth - to the outside world a very public success story. At the same time Rebus is also receiving anonymous notes which say things like: "THERE ARE CLUES EVERYWHERE" and "FOR THOSE WHO READ BETWEEN THE LINES". Damned if I haven't met myself coming and going in Knots and Crosses, the first John Rebus novel by Ian Rankin. Still, Rankin does complicate matters nicely: there's Rebus' brother, Michael, the favoured son who followed in dad's footsteps and became a successful hypnotist -- but whose life (and, especially, success) isn't all it seems to be. After sharing a quote from the novel, a friend from the UK responded it seemed I was identifying with John Rebus.