As always with the Rebus books, there is a lot going on in “The Naming of the Dead,” especially with respect to the relationships between the main characters (including the villains). In the meantime, Siobhan’s hippy parents are in town for the expected protests against the G8, and this might be her chance to prove to them that her choice to become a police officer was the right thing to do…. But when he and DS Siobhan Clarke find themselves investigating what appears to be shaping into a serial killer’s activities, they are stopped at every turn - by political forces, by local villain Big Ger Cafferty, by their own superiors on the police force. It’s July 2005, and the G8 is meeting in Edinburgh, putting the local police force in a quandary: should they continue patrolling the city or should they be deployed to help protect the world’s leaders? For DI John Rebus, the answer is simple: let’s do both.
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