Despite this, Rankins protagonist, Detective Inspector John Rebus, is determined. He's at his best when he focuses on Rebus and the city of Edinburgh itself. What you will learn from reading THE NAMING OF THE DEAD by Ian Rankin. Winner of an Edgar Award and the recipient of a Gold Dagger for fiction and. Rankin deftly captures the mad circus-the media, the security, the demonstrators-of the G8 summit, but this background muddies the narrative waters. Lee Child About the Author Ian Rankin is a 1 international bestselling author. Webster's death, never wholly resolved, does connect with Rebus's investigation, but the link is tenuous at best. Rebus is more than willing to flout authority in his dogged pursuit of Colliar's killer, who may be a vigilante intent on punishing rapists. Detective Inspector John Rebus, however, has been sidelined, until the apparent suicide of an MP coincides with clues that a serial killer may be on the loose. With daily marches, demonstrations, and scuffles, the police are at full stretch.

No one really cares about the case except for Rebus, and that's mainly because Colliar was muscle for Edinburgh's crime boss 'Big Ger' Cafferty, with whom Rebus has tangled in earlier novels. July 2005, and the G8 leaders have gathered in Scotland. While his colleagues are preoccupied by ensuring security at the conference, Rebus is devoting his energy to the murder of Cyril Colliar, a recently released violent sex offender.

), Ben Webster, a Scottish delegate to the Group of Eight summit, dies suspiciously a couple of days before the world's leaders gather in Scotland in 2005. John Rebus (after 2005's Fleshmarket Alley At the start of Rankin's overly complex 18th book to feature Edinburgh's Insp.

The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin