Friday, November 23, 2018

Short stories by Rankin

Ian Rankin. Beggars Banquet (2002) Collection of short stories, several of which are about Rebus. Like Rendell, Rankin enjoys imagining psychopaths. Makes for page-turning, but too many of these tales leave a bad taste, despite slatherings of poetic justice.
  And th titel omits th apostrophe. Beacsue inlcuding it would spoil the coverd esign? Probably.
  This collection would be a poor introduction to Rankin. **

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