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Credits

Writer: Ian Rankin; Genres: Fiction, Thriller; Publisher: Little Brown & Company

In Ian Rankin's The Naming of the Dead, a summit of world leaders and attendant anti-everything street protesters impede Scottish detectives Rebus and Clarke in their hunt for a serial killer.

Grisliest Death
Head bashed in, blow softened by a heroin overdose.

Lowdown
Rankin again paints a corrupt world (even Bono's antipoverty crusade is suspect) in convincing shades of gray, with Rebus, a whiskey-soaked old-timer who breaks rules like an anarchist, as its wary conscience. A-


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