New review: In a house of lies - I. Rankin

Inspector Rebus serie - Book 22
Rebus never disappoints, even after 22 novels. Yes, I might have liked him to be a bit more in the centre of the story, but cannot complain really.
Great crime plot, with a lot of turnings and surprises, never a dull moment and Rebus is always Rebus, my favourite inspector ever. The past comes to haunt him and some other colleagues, but Rebus manages not only to get away with it, he also manages to be the showstopper at the end and get involved in the cases. I really loved him!
I am just a bit worried on how long Rankin will continue to write about Rebus, who has now been retired for a couple of books and he is not in his best physical state?

Overall rating:  7,5    Plot: 7,5   Writing style: 8    Cover:  7

Title: In a house of lies

Author: Ian Rankin
Publisher: Orion
Pages: 384
Publication year: 2018

The Plot:

Everyone has something to hide

A missing private investigator is found, locked in a car hidden deep in the woods. Worse still - both for his family and the police - is that his body was in an area that had already been searched.

Everyone has secrets
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is part of a new inquiry, combing through the mistakes of the original case. There were always suspicions over how the investigation was handled and now - after a decade without answers - it's time for the truth.

Nobody is innocent

Every officer involved must be questioned, and it seems everyone on the case has something to hide, and everything to lose. But there is one man who knows where the trail may lead - and that it could be the end of him: 

The Author:

Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into thirty-six languages and are bestsellers worldwide.
Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. In 2004, Ian won America's celebrated Edgar Award for Resurrection Men. He has also been shortlisted for the Anthony Award in the USA, won Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Hull, the Open University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.