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Journal Entry 2 by  gypsysmom from Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on Monday, September 08, 2008
 A new member (so new she isn't even signed up yet) brought this to our meet-up tonight and I grabbed it since it is a Rebus that I haven't read yet. Thanks and very nice to meet you. Hope we see more of you.
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Journal Entry 3 by gypsysmom at Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Set in Darkness is, I believe, the 12th John Rebus mystery by Ian Rankin and comes right after Dead Souls. Rebus is even more alone in this book which takes place in 1999. His relationship with Patience has ended, his daughter, Sammy, has moved to England to take an intensive physiotherapy treatment and work fills his life. And there is plenty of work to do so.
Rebus is on a special committee to oversee security for the new Scottish parliament. The police hot shot, Derek Linford, is on the committee as well. Rebus and Linford are at opposite ends of a very long stick when it comes to policing. Thus, when a skeleton is found in Queensbury House, site of the new parliament, and Rebus and Linford have to work together to figure out who the skeleton (soon referred to as Skelly) it's not a match made in heaven. Soon they have an even more important assignment when Roddy Grieve, Labour candidate for the new parliament, is found dead in a shed on the grounds. This merits a team of police and Rebus manages to get some of the officers he is comfortable with on the team. He'd like to have Siobhan Clarke working for him but she's investigating the suicide of a homeless person. Normally that wouldn't be a high priority but this homeless person had over four hundred thousand pounds in savings and seems to have materialized out of thin air in 1980.
Soon enough there are possible linkages between the three cases. Derek and Rebus are not seeing eye to eye on the investigation and Rebus is less than thrilled when Derek asks Siobhan out. After three dates Siobhan dumps Derek who does not take it gracefully. He starts spying on Siobhan from the tenement across the street from hers. One night when Rebus takes Siobhan home he finds out what Derek is doing. Rebus promises not to tell either Siobhan or their superiors if Linford leaves him to do his thing.
One of his things involves going to see Ger Cafferty's second in command to find out some details about another Edinburgh crime boss who seems to be connected to the cases. He has to see the second in command because Cafferty is in jail, due to Rebus. Imagine Rebus shock when Cafferty himself shows up as Rebus is meeting the 2IC.
So yes, Rebus has lots of work to keep him busy and his relationship with Cafferty may be the longest surviving one in his life.
At one point the investigation seems to lead to Rosslyn Chapel which figured in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. It's not a major point in the book but the fact that Rankin was writing about the Chapel at least 4 years before Dan Brown is, I think, important.
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Journal Entry 4 by gypsysmom at Manitoba Theatre Centre – 174 Market in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Released 1 yr ago (7/21/2010 UTC) at Manitoba Theatre Centre – 174 Market in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I left this book during our Annual BookCrossing Fringe Release Party which started out from MTC. This book is set in Edinburgh which is home to the largest Fringe Festival plus it has the word "set" in the title. I thought it was appropriate for a Fringe Festival release.
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Journal Entry 5 by  AnonymousFinder at Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on Sunday, August 29, 2010
I picked this up during the Fringe Festival. A friend had been telling me about Ian Rankin recently, so I thought this was the perfect opportunity to give it a read. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, so I'll check in again later.
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Set in Darkness
