Resurrection Men

By: Ian Rankin

Narrated by: James Macpherson

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus's own mistake. Now Rebus can't determine if he's been set up for a fall or if his disgraced classmates are as ruthless as he suspects.

When Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke discovers that her investigation of an art dealer's murder is tied to Rebus's inquiry, the two-protege and mentor-join forces. Soon they find themselves in the midst of an even bigger scandal than they had imagined-a plot with conspirators in every corner of Scotland and deadly implications about their colleagues.

With the brilliant eye for character and place that earned him the name "the Dickens of Edinburgh," Ian Rankin delivers a page-turning novel of intricate suspense.

Best Rebus novel

Resurrection Men is very possibly Rankin's best Rebus novel, and Macpherson makes the book even more fun. All the stars.

Another Tour de Force for Ian Rankin

Having read this a decade ago, and now listening to all of the Rebus novels in sequence, Rankin’s story is as fresh as the first time, with complex, intersecting plot lines that were better the second time around and far better when the novels are experienced in sequence. The characters’ development make them all increasingly interesting and well-rounded, especially the working relationships between Rebus, Siobhan Clark, and Gill Templar. But the best, by far, is the on-going and developing relationship between Rebus and Morris Gerald (Big Ger) Cafferty which expands to new levels in Resurrection Men. Of the various readers who narrate or read Rankin’s novels, this man is the best – capable of bringing life and different shadings of voice and emotion to each of the characters in the story, not a simple task for a book that draws on so many.

Strong Scottish accent challenges understanding

As much as i like the sound and rhythm of Scottish accents, this dramatization of a good book was very hard to understand. Rebus colleagues and the "big Ger" band where the worst. Can you offer a different production of this title?

another good book in the series

it's always difficult when someone new does the audio but maybe it's because I'm an American gringo that Mr McPherson's differentiation between the characters was really hard for me to catch in my ear.
also to be fair audio books are really difficult anyway. the story was good and fun and it was good to see further character development and hopefully it'll continue in the next book in the series.

Accent Makes Listening Harder

At times it was very hard to understand the narrator when he used too strong of a Scottish accent.