A review by migrex
Bleeding Hearts by Jack Harvey, Ian Rankin

4.0

I bought this while I was in Scotland because I wanted something by a well-known Scottish author. Rankin is famous for his crime novels (this one was originally published under a pseudonym), so I bought one, even though I'm not a big fan of that particular genre. However, I enjoyed this book a lot. I liked the change of narration amongst the characters. I liked how you are on the main character's side even though he's a hired hit man. I liked that it takes place in a lot of different places, including London, New York, Albuquerque, and Washington state. I liked that Rankin was able to pretty accurately capture the "voice" so many different characters, be they English, Scottish, New Yorker, or Texan. The only thing he could've improved on in that department would have been to not use so much of a British style of speech for those characters but it didn't detract from the story (too much). Oh, I also liked that this is a stand-alone book rather than part of a lengthy detective stories.