Inspector Rebus · Book 26
A Heart Full of Headstones
- Published
- 18 October 2022
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9780316473637
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Heart Full of Headstones (2022), 336 pages, is the twenty-fourth book in the sequence, arriving as the series' portrait of Rebus's mortality -- including his COPD -- became an increasingly central thread rather than a background note.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
A Heart Full of Headstones is book 26 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows A Song for the Dark Times. It is followed by Midnight and Blue. See the full Inspector Rebus reading order.
John Rebus is a Detective Inspector with Edinburgh CID: a hard-drinking, rule-bending insomniac who solves cases as much through stubbornness and an instinct for the city's underside as through procedure. Ian Rankin builds each novel around a real strand of Edinburgh life — the tourist Old Town sitting on top of a much darker New Town of gangsters, corrupt councillors and old sectarian grudges — and lets Rebus's insubordination with his superiors (and his complicated, decades-long feud-turned-uneasy-alliance with…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316473637