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Exit Music (Inspector Rebus) | 
| Author: Ian Rankin
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.8
ISBN: 0316057584
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780316057585
ASIN: 0316057584
Publication Date: September 17, 2008
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It's late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong.
Rebus discovers that an elite delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, looking to expand its interests. And as Rebus's investigation gains ground, someone brutally assaults a local gangster with whom he has a long history.
Has Rebus overstepped his bounds for the last time? Only a few days shy of the end to his long, controversial career, will Rebus even make it that far?
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 Would Have Loved to Give this a Five November 2, 2008
Grey Wolffe (North Waltham, MA United States)
After twenty odd years of being a 'copper' Rebus will have to retire because he has reached retirement age. With ten days left he has one last murder to solve, which then becomes two and a mugging. The victims of the murders are a Russian Poet, a studio recording engineer (who worked with the poet) and the mugging is of Big Ger Cafferty.
Just like any Rankin mystery, there is plenty of political and underworld underhanded action going on. Though the polemics about Scotland and the independence movement get to be boring after awhile (thus the four stars). But the ending and the perpetrators of the two murders and the mugging are finally flushed out though only one is settled before the end of the book. Though the actual ending was a little to over the top (almost pathetic).
One of the things that Rankin has done is to once and for all to tie Big Ger and Rebus together. One of the nurses asks Rebus if Ger is his brother because they look alike. But Ger had lost his wife and son and had no family. Rebus lost his brother, divorced his wife (or she him) and his daughter he never sees is in London. Neither one of them had anything left but the 'job'.
It would be interesting for Rankin to write about Siobhan Clarke and how she gets on with Rebus retired. Rankin does have someone mention to Rebus about a group of retired cops (SCRU) who work on 'cold' cases. But I think that was a 'red herring', we'll just have to wait and see.
Zeb Kantrowitz
 We'll Miss the Misfit October 26, 2008
John F. Rooney
This is the nineteenth and probably the last in Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series because Rebus has been put out to pasture, retired. His bosses say good riddance, and the only one who seems to care what happens to him is Siobhan Clarke, Shiv, his female sidekick, who learned how to cut corners and rile supervisors from him. His arch-nemesis, the gangster Big Ger Cafferty is deeply involved in this book and by the end lies at death's door.
A Russian poet-dissident as well as an audio specialist are murdered, and there are plenty of suspects to go around. It's a complex novel with numerous strands, but it is well-plotted, and readers will find it engrossing.
We're going to miss Rebus who is Scotland's answer to Michael Connelly's rebellious L.A. cop Harry Bosch. Rankin always does a good job drawing subsidiary characters, bringing out nuances, quirks, and tics.
The denouement is satisfying and the clever solutions will satisfy most readers. As Rebus is investigating, he finds the business overworld is worse than the underworld. The story is told with wit and humor and with a deep understanding of what makes people tick. Shiv, thinking of a building destroyed because the wiring had gone bad, muses, "Wiring gone bad: a fair description of Rebus himself at times."
We feel sorry seeing Rebus being tossed on the junk heap. "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."
The opening pages get us into the story quickly, economically. It's a clear-cut narrative style with no extraneous stuff. The parrying between various characters is done deftly.
Perhaps Rankin will resurrect Rebus by giving us some of his earlier cases, or perhaps Shiv will become the series main character with Rebus assisting from some bar stool.
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Another wonderful book by Ian Rankin, one of his best. October 18, 2008
William Wilkerson (austin tx)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have read all of Rankin's novels and this is one of the best. I only hope that Rebus did not make his exit and there are many more novels involing this brilliant policeman.
Rankin October 17, 2008
Gerald W. Greupner (Lake Elmo, MN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've read most of Mr. Rankin's John Rebus books and this is a terrific addition.
 Last case? October 17, 2008
Sue Scott (Illinois)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Is this Rebus' last case? Only Ian Rankin knows!
I have read or listened to all the Rebus novels and Rankins free-standing novels and was quite disappointed that this one was so dull. Endless conversational speculations about the Russian characters, the politics, and, of course, Big Ger Cafferty, Rebus' long time nemesis. But not much happens. Very little action and developments in the investigation into the poet Todorov's murder are glacially paced. The best moments come in the last two pages. Jump to the end? Your choice.
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