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Exit Music is the 17th, and potentially concluding, novel in the internationally bestselling Inspector Rebus series, written by Ian Rankin. It was published on 6 September 2007. The title was released simultaneously by Rankin himself at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and by a special promotion featured on internet music networking site last.fm, arranged by the publisher to celebrate the theme of music which has run throughout the series. The cover was also revealed on the site.
[edit] Plot summary
Just a week before Rebus’s retirement, Rebus and Clarke are investigating a murder at King’s Stable road. They find the body of a famous Russian poet who has been mugged and beaten to death. It seems that the murder was a random attack but a second murder takes place days after. This time it was a recording artist that had close ties to the dead Russian poet. Rebus looks for the connections between these two murders so that he may find the killer. But halfway-through the investigation, Rebus is suspended for the way he interrogated suspects and getting on the wrong side of Scottish bankers and politicians. His last three days before retirement are at home; away from the police station and away from the murder investigation. Rebus continues to solve the murder unhindered by the suspension with the support of his partner Siobhan.
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A mugging gone wrong?’ Clarke suggested into the silence. Rebus just shrugged, meaning he didn’t think so. He asked Clarke to shine the torch down the body: black leather jacket, an open-necked patterned shirt which had probably started out blue, faded denims held up with a black leather belt, black suede shoes. As far as Rebus could tell, the man’s face was lined, the hair greying. Early fifties? Around five feet nine or ten. No jewellery, no wristwatch. Bringing Rebus’s personal body-count to . . . what? Maybe thirty or forty over the course of his three-decades-plus on the force. Another ten days and this poor wretch would have been somebody else’s problem – and still could be.
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