Inspector John Rebus has confronted Edinburgh's most hardened criminals, its bloodiest crime scenes, and its most dangerous backstreets, but nothing could have prepared him for what he finds on Fleshmarket Alley. In the city's red-light district, men live out their sordid fantasies, and women with no other choice sell their bodies to make a buck. FLESHMARKET ALLEY (FLESHMARKET CLOSE in Britain) is Ian Rankin's newest novel featuring Detective Inspector John Rebus and his protégé, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke. The two are trying to find their footing and fit in with their new colleagues; their old police station had been reorganized and so Rebus and his fellow detectives were transferred to other stations. · Fleshmarket Alley contains additional and complex subplots, apart from the ones I mention above. More importantly, for me, Mr. Rankin takes on the social issues of smuggling illegal immigrants for profit, slave labor, terrorism, and corporate run, prison-like refugee detention houses.
Read "Fleshmarket Alley An Inspector Rebus Novel" by Ian Rankin available from Rakuten Kobo. An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme. Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other probl. "Fleshmarket Alley" captures the Scotland not found in post cards or tourist guides. In his latest effort, the accomplished Ian Rankin takes on a host of contemporary issues: illegal immigration, racism, bureaucratic corruption, the slave trade, and more. Strangely, despite the title, the prostitution plays only a background role in this. - The mass market paperback of Rankin's latest hit, A Question of Blood, hits stores just one month before Fleshmarket Alley appears in hardover, luring even more teaders to this incredible series. - Ian Rankin is admired by some of the most successful mystery writers of our time--P.D. James, Michael Connelly, and Jonathan Kellerman count him.
- Resurrection Men (LB, ), Ian Rankin's debut on the Little, Brown and Company list, heralded his long overdue breakout in the US and was nominated for a Edgar Award for best novel. A Question of Blood (LB, ) only increased his growing fan base. Fleshmarket Alley promises to be Rankin's biggest book yet. As always, Ian Rankin entertains with a series of puzzlers in and around a dark and brooding Edinburgh. Mysteries include the murder of a Turkish asylum seeker, a missing teenage girl, a recently paroled rapist and a pair of skeletons found in the cellars of a bar on Fleshmarket Close. Fleshmarket Alley. by Ian Rankin. 1. How does Ian Rankin reveal himself as a writer interested in using fiction to “tell the truths the real world can’t”? 2. There are similarities between the lives of the author and his protagonist for instance, both Rankin and John Rebus were born in Fife, lost their mother at an early age, enjoy a.
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