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Exit Music

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Exit Music

by Ian Rankin

Orion, HK$170

It was the book fans had been waiting for. The final novel in the series. Would the hero be killed off, would any of the other major characters die? Who would survive the showdown between good and evil?

Sound familiar?

The echo wasn't lost on Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin as he addressed an Edinburgh Book Festival audience in August in the run-up to the publication of the last in his series of novels featuring hard-drinking Detective Inspector John Rebus. He joked he'd considered calling the book 'Inspector Rebus and the Deathly Hallows', but the title had already been taken. In fact, Rankin's website had run a competition for fans to guess the novel's title. Suggestions included The Pride of Mr John Rebus, Rebus Will Die, Ashes to Ashes and The Final Cut, which, although incorrect, won for ingenuity.

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