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.
Key facts about A Question of Blood
Ian Rankin wrote A Question of Blood, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2003. The book has 440 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781409175766 to find the main one.
A Question of Blood is book 15 of 27 in the Inspector Rebus series. The series has 27 published books. However, the series starts with Knots and Crosses (1987). Midnight and Blue is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 10 October 2024.
Additionally, Ian Rankin writes Jack Laidlaw and Malcolm Fox as separate series. Those series sit on our crime fiction and police procedural shelves. Meanwhile, The Heights is the latest published Ian Rankin book on file, from 8 October 2026.
About Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin is a Scottish crime writer whose Inspector John Rebus series has become one of the defining bodies of work in modern British crime fiction, and whose Edinburgh setting -- rendered in unglamorous, atmospheric detail -- is as much a character in the books as Rebus himself. See every Ian Rankin book in order.
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