The End

When Ian Rankin's best-known character, the crusty Edinburgh cop John Rebus, debuted in 1987's Knots and Crosses, he was forty years old. He's been aging in the novels right along with the rest of the world, and he's now sixty and approaching mandatory retirement. Seventeen books later, Rankin has announced that the next Rebus novel, Exit Music, will indeed be the last one.

You can read a review of the novel here, but that's all. No publication date has been announced yet for a US edition. If you're desperate for closure, you'll have to get it from across the pond.--David E