Anders Pieterse Ordre des livres (chronologique)

À Édimbourg, ça ne va pas fort pour l'inspecteur John Rebus. Il s'est fait jeter dehors par sa maîtresse et Michael, son frère fraîchement libéré de prison, débarque chez lui. Puis, un cuisinier fanatique d'Elvis Presley envoie Holmes, l'un de ses collègues, dans le coma. Enquêtant sur cette agression, Rebus découvre le carnet noir sur lequel Holmes notait les informations glanées dans les bars. Lorsque Michael est attaqué à son tour, Rebus prend l'affaire à coeur. Resurgit alors une vieille histoire jamais... Bien que Ian Rankin soit très populaire en Grande-Bretagne, Le Carnet noir est la première enquête de l'inspecteur Rebus traduite en français. Voici l'occasion de découvrir un personnage attachant qui fait songer à une sorte de Maigret de la génération des Rolling Stones : bourru, autoritaire, inquisiteur mais non violent. Et de s'immiscer dans l'âme sombre d'Édimbourg, aussi opaque qu'une bière stout. Un polar écossais aux rouages parfaitement maîtrisés. --Nicolas Mesplède

MP Gregor Jack is caught in an Edinburgh brothel with a prostitute only too keen to show off her considerable assets. When the media horde begins baying for political blood Jack's friends rally round to protect him. But some of those friends - particularly his wife's associates - are not so squeaky clean themselves. Initially Detective Inspector Rebus is sympathetic to the MP's dilemma - who hasn't occasionally succumbed to temptation? - but with the disappearance of Jack's wife the glamour surrounding the popular young man begins to tarnish. Someone wants to strip Jack naked and Rebus wants to know why ...

Underneath the cobbled streets of Edinburgh's old Town are medieval stone cellars where a man could scream and never be heard. In mortal Causes, the tortured body of a young man is found hanging from a butcher's hook in one of these underground rooms. The tattoo on his wrist and a cryptic inscription scratched in the dirt suggest to Inspector John Rebus that this was an execution, but what man or men carried it out?

They call him the Wolfman - because he takes a nip out of his victims, and because they found the first victim in the East End's lonely Wolf Street. Inspector Rebus is called down from Edinburgh to track down the killer.

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict - until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like a murder every day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste, appealing to the darkest corners of his mind -- BOOK COVER.

Concludes the fantasy series. The dragon charmer, Prospero's children.

Ça vous dirait de vivre votre propre autopsie ? De rencontrer le Diable ? De vous suicider de désespoir dans les plaines enneigées du Minnesota ? De fuir la police en compagnie de Dillinger ? De devenir assassin via Internet ou de trouver la petite pièce porte-bonheur qui vous fera décrocher le jackpot ? Alors laissez-vous guider par Stephen King.

Bundel verhalen met de Schotse inspecteur Rebus in de hoofdrol.

"Chang and Eng Bunker were the Siamese twins for whom the term was coined, one of the nineteenth century's most fabled human oddities. Now Darin Strauss has rescued the twins from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary conjoined lives a first novel of exceptional beauty."--Jacket