A review by deepwinterodd
Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin

4.0

Fucking delightful. Feels like vintage Rebus but with character development for the gods: Siobhan's well on her way to taking up the mantle of Rebus Jr, Rebus and Cafferty are both mellowing and becoming more paranoid in their old age, and Malcolm Fox is an obnoxious little oik, who gets what obnoxious little oiks have coming to them.

Nice solid hard men plotline with ambiguity and history, yesssssss.

Don't care for the new members of the team being added in like a low-rent Brian and whatshernose that went off in disgrace, but only because they're added in so palely, with a slotted spoon. A couple good scoops of them and I'm sure Rankin would make them come to life. I nominate them taking the place of Fox, for a start.

I did enjoy this quite a bit.