A Song for the Dark Times
- Published
- 1 January 2020
- Pages
- 328
- ISBN-13
- 9780316479257
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Song for the Dark Times (2020) is the twenty-third Rebus novel, 328 pages, following In a House of Lies as Rankin continued charting his detective's life well past the point most fictional policemen would have stopped working.
Key facts about A Song for the Dark Times
Ian Rankin wrote A Song for the Dark Times, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2020. The book has 328 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780316479257 to find the main one.
A Song for the Dark Times is book 25 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 Song for the Dark Times is book 25 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows In a House of Lies. It is followed by A Heart Full of Headstones. 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 9780316479233
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316479257