Title: The Hanging Garden
Author: Ian Rankin
Rating:
4 stars out of 5Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Copyright: 1998
Pages: 349
Keywords: crime, fiction
Reading period: 20-21 July, 2008
DI John Rebus is struggling with an incipient gang war in Edinburgh.
He's investigating an elderly academic who might be a Nazi war criminal.
A Bosnian prostitute has brought out the white knight in him.
His personal life is a mess:
He's off the booze, but work is the only thing keeping him going.
And his daughter has been run down in the street,
perhaps as a warning to him.
Rebus somehow struggles with all of this,
coming out more or less victorious,
but at a cost to his integrity and his loved ones.
Recommended.