A review by geoffreyjen
Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin

5.0

I was prepared to take off a star for this outing in the Rebus universe, but by the time I got to the end, I put it back on. The middle of the book dragged somewhat, but I enjoyed more the separate threads followed by Siobahn and Rebus more than in the past few books, and the interplay at the training centre with the Resurrection Men provided added spice. Siobahn clearly follows her own path her, without anything to prove, and it works. The ending I found more satisfactory than many of Rankin’s books, which I find have a tendency to be contrived a little. This felt more organic. And the grittiness was back, not in any blatant, in your face way, but as part of the background storytelling, and that’s what makes these stories so compelling at their best.