- Exit Music
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name = Exit Music
orig title =
translator =
author =Ian Rankin
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country =Scotland
language = English
series =Inspector Rebus
genre = Detective novel
publisher =Orion Books
release_date = 6 September 2007
media_type = Print
pages = 496
isbn =
preceded_by =The Naming of the Dead
followed_by ="Exit Music" is the seventeenth, and potentially concluding,
crime novel in the internationally bestsellingInspector Rebus series, written byIan Rankin . It was published on 6 September 2007. The title was released simultaneously by Rankin himself at theEdinburgh International Book Festival and by a special promotion featured on internet music networking sitelast.fm , arranged by the publisher to celebrate the theme of music which has run throughout the series. The cover was also revealed on the site.Plot summary
Just a week before Rebus’s retirement, Rebus and Clarke are investigating a murder at King’s Stables Road. They find the body of a famous Russian poet who has been mugged and beaten to death. It seems that the murder was a random attack but a second murder takes place days after. This time it was a recording artist with close ties to the dead Russian poet. Rebus looks for the connections between these two murders so that he may find the killer. But halfway-through the investigation, Rebus is suspended for the way he interrogated suspects and getting on the wrong side of Scottish bankers and politicians. His last three days before retirement are at home; away from the police station and away from the murder investigation. Rebus continues to solve the murder unhindered by the suspension with the support of his partner Siobhan.
Awards
Won, ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Author of the Year, 2008 (awarded to Ian Rankin). [cite web|author= Allen, Katie|title= Rankin and P D James pick up ITV3 awards|url= http://www.thebookseller.com/news/68347-rankin-and-p-d-james-pick-up-itv3-awards.html|work= theBookseller.com|date= 2008-10-06|accessdate= 2008-10-06]
External links
* [http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/09/podcast_ian_rankin_reads_from.html Ian Rankin reads the opening to "Exit Music"] on [http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/ Guardian Unlimited's Books Blog]
* [http://www.last.fm/group/Ian+Rankin Last.fm Rankin page]
* [http://www.ianrankin.net/pages/books/index.asp?PageID=106 Extraction from Ianrankin.net]
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