# A Song for the Dark Times

**From the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin, comes one of the must-read books of the year: A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES**  
  
**'Genius ... Only great novels capture the spirit of the age. This is one of them.'**  
**_THE TIMES_**  
  
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'He's gone...'  
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When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days.  
  
Rebus fears the worst - and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect.  
  
He wasn't the best father - the job always came first - but now his daughter needs him more than ever. But is he going as a father or a detective?  
  
As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast - and a small town with big secrets - he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is the one thing he doesn't want to find...  
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PRAISE FOR _A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES_:  
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'**Magnificent ... utterly unputdownable** and an immersive pleasure' **MARIAN KEYES  
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'This is Rankin at his best, Rebus at his best, **storytelling that meets the moment and transcends all genres and expectations'** **MICHAEL CONNELLY**  
  
'An **outstanding** addition to one of the finest bodies of work in crime fiction' **MICK HERRON**  
  
'Rankin remains the king of the castle' _THE TIMES_  
  
'Typically compelling' _DAILY TELEGRAPH_  
  
'Masterly storytelling' **_SUNDAY EXPRESS_**  
  
'Excellent' **LIZ NUGENT**  
  
'The best that the crime genre can offer' **_FT_**  
  
'Rankin grows better with time . . . Rebus grows ever more compelling' **_DAILY MAIL  
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**PRAISE FOR THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER:**  
  
'Ian Rankin is a genius'  
**LEE CHILD  
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'A master storyteller'  
**_GUARDIAN_  
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'Rebus is one of British crime writing's greatest characters: alongside Holmes, Poirot and Morse'  
**_DAILY MAIL_  
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'Great fiction, full stop'  
**_THE TIMES  
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'One of Britain's leading novelists in any genre'  
**_NEW STATESMAN_  
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'Rankin is a phenomenon'  
**_SPECTATOR_  
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_'Worthy of Agatha Christie at her best'  
_**_SCOTSMAN_  
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'The king of crime fiction'  
**_SUNDAY EXPRESS_**  
  
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Ian Rankin's SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 5th October 2020**

## Details

- **Price:** 0.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- **Type:** Ian Rankin

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