Dead Souls: From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES
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Dead Souls: From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES
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These are not "feel good" stories and the continuing characters in the series have weaknesses and secrets and the ghosts of the past are haunting them all. And coincidence would have it that one of the criminals that really got to both Rebus and Margulies, the paedophile Darren Rough, is back in town. p>Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. Knowing some answers does not really resolve the divisions and imperfections in society which it is the job of Rebus and his colleagues to police.
I think something's gone bad inside you", an acquaintance diagnoses early on, and for much of the book Rebus himself isn't so sure that she's wrong. Meanwhile there is a trial going on of a former school in which two of the principals were involved in child abuse. Rebus is one of the men assigned to watch him -- a job that's all the more fun because the exclusive rights to Oakes' story have gone to none other than the old Rebus-foe, journalist Jim Stevens. Well, it's not a series with a sunny outlook, by any means, and Inspector Rebus is not an altogether sympathetic central character. As complex and unpredictable as the brooding mists that envelop his Edinburgh beat, Rebus is ever resourceful and determined-but this time, vulnerable and challenged as never before, with complications in his personal life, and events that shake him to the depths of his being.All you could see were shoe-soles and legs, girls’ skirts and the smalls of backs where T-shirts and jerseys had ridden up.
Much is going on in this book, and you are not sure of how everything resolves until the end, if even then. The souls that are dead here have been killed by various means and methods over time -- some realize that's what they are, some haven't a clue -- some come to realize it in these pages (and some try to revitalize themselves). Dead Souls is a long book but the pages turned themselves and I was reluctant to stop reading at any point.The biggest reason is this: Even though I absolutely believe we have free will and are wholly responsible for the decisions we make, some people are less capable of making informed decisions thanks to damage that occurred to them in their youth. He recently received the OBE for services to literature, and opted to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons.
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