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Rebus Book 23: A Song For the Dark Times

AuthorIan Rankin

NarratorJames Macpherson

SeriesRebus, Book 23

Duration11h 2m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries

PublisherOrion

VersionUnabridged

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From the iconic Number One best seller Ian Rankin, comes one of the must-listen audiobooks of the year: A Song for the Dark Times. "He's gone..." 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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