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082	0	0	_aMYS RAN
100	1		_aRankin, Ian
245	1	2	_aA question of blood _b: an inspector Rebus novel _c/ Ian Rankin
260			_aBoston _b: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co. _c, 2010, c2001.
300			_a406 p. _c; 24 cm
490	1		_aThe inspector Rebus series
520			_aThe 14th novel to feature the always compelling (and, as his name suggests, perpetually puzzling) John Rebus begins with what seems to be a uniquely American crime: a madman enters a school and starts shooting, killing two students and wounding a third before turning the gun on himself. But we're in Rankin country-a perpetually damp and morally bankrupt Edinburgh-with Rebus and Siobhan Clarke searching for the real story behind what seems an act of sheer madness. This immensely satisfying police procedural has plenty of forensic science, but Rebus knows that "none of it might make them any the wiser about the only question that mattered....The why." Why did Lee Herdman, a drop-out of the U.K. version of the Special Forces, go on a rampage? Why was James Bell, the son of a self-righteous Scottish M.P., merely wounded? And why are two Army investigators sniffing around the case? A subplot has Rebus himself under suspicion of murder: a minor criminal is found dead, burned in an apartment fire, and Rebus shows up with heavily bandaged hands the next morning. The detectives encounter every stratum of contemporary Scottish society, from angry teenage toughs and petty criminals to the privileged and the powerful.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aRebus, Inspector (Fictitious character)-- _vFiction
650			_aPolice _z-Scotland _z-Edinburgh _v--Fiction
651			_aEdinburgh (Scotland) _v--Fiction
655		7	_aMystery fiction
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