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A review by jimbowen0306
In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin
3.0
This book is the 22nd John Rebus book by Ian Rankin. In it Rebus has resigned again, suffering from old age, and some of things that go with that, his old sidekick, Siobhan Clarke is a DI with a decent to good record, and Malcolm Fox is based at the central office of the Scottish police force, but still being used to act as a member of the Scottish equivalent of Internal Affairs.
Clarke is pulled into an inquiry into the death of Stuart Bloom, after his body is found in a car on a field on the outskirts of Edinburgh. I remember Bloom from older books I think, but I can't place the book he appeared in. He has been missing for years, so Fox is called in to examine the original inquiry, which Rebus was involved in.
At the same time, Clarke asks Rebus to have a look at an old case of hers. She got a kid convicted of murdering his girlfriend, but his family guilt her into looking at the case, and she passes the task on to Rebus, to divert him from the "proper case".
It wasn't a bad read, it's just it... didn't grip me. I read it, and it was fine, but that's all it was if I'm honest.
Clarke is pulled into an inquiry into the death of Stuart Bloom, after his body is found in a car on a field on the outskirts of Edinburgh. I remember Bloom from older books I think, but I can't place the book he appeared in. He has been missing for years, so Fox is called in to examine the original inquiry, which Rebus was involved in.
At the same time, Clarke asks Rebus to have a look at an old case of hers. She got a kid convicted of murdering his girlfriend, but his family guilt her into looking at the case, and she passes the task on to Rebus, to divert him from the "proper case".
It wasn't a bad read, it's just it... didn't grip me. I read it, and it was fine, but that's all it was if I'm honest.