A review by hpuphd
A Good Hanging by Ian Rankin

4.0

I had never read an Ian Rankin, and the reviewer comments here caution against making this collection of twelve stories about Inspector John Rebus of Edinburgh the first Rankin you read—but I liked all twelve stories. Very human, very honest. “Sunday” explores Rebus’s thoughts at the end of a weekend in which he has had to kill someone (in the line of duty), a first for him. A fellow cop checks on him. At the end: “Rebus knew of a church in Mayfield with an evening service on a Sunday. A church with a restrained congregation and a minister not overly keen on prying into one’s affairs.”