Reviews for Tooth and Nail (Inspector John Rebus Series #3)

The average rating for Tooth and Nail (Inspector John Rebus Series #3) based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-03-04 00:00:00 Chris Kol So, my favourite Scottish sleuth has been called down to London to help track down a serial killer. There's a couple of mysteries here: 1. Who is killing women in the capital - stabbing them and leaving bite marks on the body? 2. Why has Rebus been asked to go down south and help? Ok, he'd played a part in arresting a multiple murderer back in his own patch, but it wasn't really the work of a serial killer. It's really interesting to see Rebus out of his comfort zone, mixing with cockney coppers who seem to resent his presence and stumbling around a city he has no real knowledge of. Throw in the fact that his ex-wife and daughter now live in London (the daughter with a boyfriend Rebus detests on sight) and you have a delicious concoction that you just know will be hilariously entertaining. The comedy, of course, comes in the bone-dry form. Snide comments and hurtful one-liners abound. And the meeting with the daughter's boyfriend is a classic of it's ilk. Great stuff. There aren't too many characters here and probably too many coincidences - well, how else do you make a mystery work when you have a city of ten million people and just a couple of hundred pages to work with? But, as always, the beauty here is in the banter and the observation of our hero in action. It's brilliantly done. In the end we witness a madcap scenario as the chase concludes - it's the one thing the author doesn't always get right, how to finish off his stories - and Rebus is off back to Auld Reekie to track down a few more criminals back in his home city. I'm loving these early books in the series. It really is all about the main character and his inability to be civil to more than ten percent of the population. The humour and the tension Rankin is able to portray is second to none. Yes, he catches the bad people, but that's a secondary factor in these books. Rankin really is a master of his craft.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-06-21 00:00:00 Agnes Hibbs i love my Scotsman Rebus, always a good relaxing read!