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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2016
Pre-publicity suggested that the new Rebus novel would have all the features you could possible want. However, although the familiar characters and places are there, the overall feeling is one of disappointment. Even the addition of the hostile "team" from Glasgow fails to add the necessary spice that would have merited more stars. Of course, fans of the series, myself included, will always clamour for 'just one more' but perhaps it's time for Ian Rankin to turn a deaf ear and explore new ways before the series becomes as worn-out and tired as Rebus himself. Having said that, "Even Dogs in the Wild" is still an enjoyable enough read with the usual Edinburgh atmosphere - worlds apart from McCall Smith's Isobel Dalhousie Edinburgh - a complex plot and some of these tense meetings between familiar characters and new villains. Good but not quite the standard of the full canon of Rebus novels
