Knots & Crosses
Registered by Stoepbrak of Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on 3/25/2012
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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Synopsis (Credit: Introductory page)
'And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you ...?'
'That sort of thing' is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking and drinking too much, his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife, is one of many policemen hunting the killer. And then the messages begin to arrive: knotted string and matchstick crosses -- taunting Rebus with pieces of a puzzle only he can solve.
Now reissued here with notes and material cut from the first publication, Knots & Crosses is a landmark novel -- both a gripping, absorbing mystery and the genesis of one of the most compelling detectives around.
(Bought second-hand at Kloof Street Library, Tamboerskloof.)
'And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you ...?'
'That sort of thing' is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking and drinking too much, his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife, is one of many policemen hunting the killer. And then the messages begin to arrive: knotted string and matchstick crosses -- taunting Rebus with pieces of a puzzle only he can solve.
Now reissued here with notes and material cut from the first publication, Knots & Crosses is a landmark novel -- both a gripping, absorbing mystery and the genesis of one of the most compelling detectives around.
(Bought second-hand at Kloof Street Library, Tamboerskloof.)
Even cutting the author some slack (this was his first novel in the series, after all) I thought the book resembled a collection of detection mystery clichés. Disappointing.
Journal Entry 3 by Stoepbrak at CPUT - Bellville Campus in Cape Town - Bellville, Western Cape South Africa on Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Released 9 yrs ago (3/25/2015 UTC) at CPUT - Bellville Campus in Cape Town - Bellville, Western Cape South Africa
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
To be left somewhere on campus. I have a meeting there later today.
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