Inspector Rebus · Book 15
A Question of Blood
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 440
- ISBN-13
- 9781409175766
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Question of Blood (2003) is the fourteenth Rebus novel, 440 pages, following Resurrection Men as Rankin kept the series' morally grey tone and serialised relationships moving forward together.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
A Question of Blood is book 15 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows Resurrection Men. It is followed by Fleshmarket Close. 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 9780752883663
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409175766