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Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children. When the social workers claim he is there for legitimate educational reasons, Rebus is faced with a dilemma - should he be outed to protect local kids or given a chance to start anew? As the locals begin a hate campaign he gets a call from the past: the son of a friend has gone missing and no one else will make time to ask the right questions. And then a fragment of Scotland's criminal history is repatriated at the end of a life sentence for murder. Once more Rebus's cup of trouble runneth over and the ghosts of past misdeeds return to haunt Edinburgh's streets.… (altro)
YossarianXeno: Page turning crime plots set in contemporary Scotland, one by an acknowledged master of the craft and the other by a new author who may well deserve similar accolades after a few more novels.
Un'altra avvincente indagine di John Rebus ancora ambientata a Edimburgo. Trama serrata ma finale un po' confuso, con alcuni punti non chiariti (...forse lo saranno nei romanzi successivi?). ( )
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The world is full of missing persons, and their numbers increase all the time. The space they occupy lies somewhere between what we know about the ways of being alive and what we hear about the ways of being dead. They wander there, unaccompanied and unknowable, like shadows of people. -Andrew O'Hagan, The Missing
Once I caught a train to Cardenden by mistake ... When we reached Cardenden we got off and waited for the next train back to Edinburgh. I was very tired and if Cardenden had looked more promising, I think I would have simply stayed there. And if you've ever been to Cardenden you'll know how bad things must have been. -Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Dedica
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To my long-suffering editor, Caroline Oakley
Incipit
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From this height, the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination.
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His one little victory: he left without saying a word.
Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children. When the social workers claim he is there for legitimate educational reasons, Rebus is faced with a dilemma - should he be outed to protect local kids or given a chance to start anew? As the locals begin a hate campaign he gets a call from the past: the son of a friend has gone missing and no one else will make time to ask the right questions. And then a fragment of Scotland's criminal history is repatriated at the end of a life sentence for murder. Once more Rebus's cup of trouble runneth over and the ghosts of past misdeeds return to haunt Edinburgh's streets.
Trama serrata ma finale un po' confuso, con alcuni punti non chiariti (...forse lo saranno nei romanzi successivi?). ( )