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Sembra un caso già risolto quello che riempie le pagine dei quotidiani di Edimburgo: un ex militare dei corpi speciali antiterrorismo, apparentemente impazzito, si è macchiato di un barbaro delitto in una scuola esclusiva prima di togliersi la vita. Può la follia spiegare un simile gesto, o si tratta di un comodo capro espiatorio per nascondere qualcosa di più sinistro? Davvero non c’è alcun mistero, come sostiene il sergente Siobhan Clarke di fronte a un insofferente John Rebus che ritroviamo in ospedale, vittima di uno strano incidente domestico?
Troppe sono le perplessità, i nodi sotterranei di un caso a doppia faccia nel quale entrano in gioco sempre più elementi inattesi, sprazzi che dipingono a poco a poco un quadro dai toni foschi, come ogni volta che c’è di mezzo il sangue. E sarà proprio il sangue il macabro filo di Arianna che lega tragicamente tutte le storie rimaste a metà. Come quella delle ustioni alle mani di Rebus, quantomeno sospette se un pericoloso criminale che importunava Siobhan è casualmente morto in un incendio solo poche ore prima.
Di nuovo fianco a fianco Siobhan e John, ancora alla ricerca della verità a ogni costo, pronti a trasgredire a qualunque regola pur di sapere. Una complicità più che mai pericolosa, perché questa volta la «strana coppia» è divisa da un ruvido muro di segreti e omissioni che potrebbe rivelarsi fatale per entrambi...
- ISBN: 8830445614
- Casa Editrice: Longanesi
- Pagine: 452
- Data di uscita: 15-09-2016
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This was a great Rebus. I Remember the tv show with Ken Stott who I will always see as Rebus. Rebus is still relatively in his prime with his usual acerbic wit and heavy smoking. In this story we find him recovering with his hands in bandages after a guy who threatened Siobhan is found burned to dea Leggi tutto
It's been five years since I last visited with Edinburgh police inspector, John Rebus and his partner, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke. Much too long a time. A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin is the 14th book in this excellent series and it was as engrossing and enjoyable as the other 13. In Questi Leggi tutto
This is he 14th adventure of John Rebus, a police detective in Edinburgh, Scotland. Rebus is a somewhat dark, occasionally violent, always acerbic, hard working copper. He is also usually in trouble with his superiors for crossing some line or breaking some rule that he – and the reader – usually fi Leggi tutto
A cracking Rebus where everything is not what it seems. This is fourteenth Inspector Rebus novel. A shoot at a private school results in two seventeen-year-olds apparently being killed by an ex-Army SAS loner who has snapped. Rebus is asked by his friend and colleague Bobby Hogan to give insights in Leggi tutto
Inspector Rebus mystery No. 14 : Rebus is the last man to see a tied up and burnt corpse of a petty criminal who had previously assaulted Siobhan... and Rebus is walking around with bandaged hands! This is revealed before the main(?) case of an ex SAS soldier walking into a private school and killing Leggi tutto
This is one of the better entries in Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series, which in turn is one of the best crime fiction series going. The always cantankerous Rebus is asked to assist in the investigation of a particularly horrible crime. An ex-serviceman has invaded a school, shot and killed two st Leggi tutto
A Question of Blood Ian Rankin, this took awhile for me to digest, I kept thinking of that serpent that curls around on itself and eats its own tail, had to look that bs up..it's the ouroboros or uroboros let me expand that train of thought, this is a tough gut wrenching story which starts out, not
Edinburgh’s infamous D.I. John Rebus must find out why an ex-army loner walks into a private school and shoots three people dead, including himself. Scotland wants new gun control laws. The police believe the crime to be a post-traumatic, stress-related shooting. Rebus has a military past and he does Leggi tutto
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