Inspector Rebus · Book 25
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.
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