Latest Rankin novel. John Rebus has now been retired for a while and is aging noticeably - he actually moves out of his apartment because of difficulties with the stairs. He is looking like an old man. The focus this time is on the shady world of financing big development projects and also on the shocking land ownership situation in Scotland where a few people, more and more of them rich foreigners, own vast amounts of the country - I think the statistic is around 90%, but I could be a bit high there. A leftover from the closing in of the commons and the expulsion of tenant farmers by noble land owners and clan chieftains in the late 18th and early 19th century.
A good read, but maybe not quite as good as many of the previous. I wonder how much life is left in Rebus as a character...
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