Quick Review: The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin
By Julia Beffon for The Times:
The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin (Orion, R205)
This is the second thriller starring Malcolm Fox and his team from Internal Affairs (or Complaints, as their fellow officers call them), and again an investigation into police misbehaviour turns into a much bigger case.
Most of the action takes place in Fife, where Fox finds links to the 1985 death of a political activist. As usual, Rankin ties his story very much to the history of Scotland, and the plot is intricately woven and finely written.
But Fox is a rather pale shadow of Rebus, Rankin’s other great detective, and instead of a moody introspective, we have a miserable sod.
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