Strip Jack
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- 69,00 kr
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- 69,00 kr
Publisher Description
Under en politirazzia på et luksusbordel i Edinburgh bliver et af Skotlands mest populære parlamentsmedlemmer grebet på fersk gerning. Under en bro i Edinburgh finder man en kvinde, der er druknet . Og under et indbrud hos en teologiprofessor bliver der stjålet adskillige uvurderlige bøger.
Kriminalpolitiet har nok at se til, og som sædvanlig lykkes det for kriminalkommissær John Rebus at få sig placeret i centrum af det hele.
Rebus må gå i clinch med byens jetset, lægge arm med højlandets bønder og kæmpe mod sine overordnede for at løse et mysterium, der for alvor sætter hans evner på prøve.
Syvende bog i serien om John Rebus.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
For all the right reasons, Edinburgh Detective Inspector John Rebus calls for comparison with Colin Dexter's Oxford copper Inspector Morse. Both spend a lot of time in pubs and bemoan the onset of middle age; each is a shrewd detective with a literary bent who operates in an academic town where clashes of culture beget victims. When much-loved politician Gregor Jack is discovered in a midnight raid on a discreet brothel, a surprising number of journalists are on hand--a situation that endangers Jack's political future. Jack's wealthy wife Elizabeth, a noted partygoer whose friends are equally well-heeled and hedonistic, can't be found. Her body is soon pulled from a nearby river, a fatality mirroring the recent murder of another, unidentified, woman. A drunk who brags of the first killing gives a false address and vanishes north of the city. Meanwhile Rebus, trying to trace a cache of valuable stolen books, finds himself talking again to the late Elizabeth's coterie of party friends. Rankin creates a living, breathing world in which his weary protagonist tackles his cases while involved in the intricacies of the day-to-day: pints and hangovers, stumbling romance, wet weather, damp clothes, tricky superiors and wide-eyed subordinates. All are brought to bear, yet all are ultimately jettisoned as Rebus closes in on the satisfying solution.