Black & Blue
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN-13
- 9780752877150
- Type
- novel
About this book
Black & Blue (1997) is the eighth Rebus novel and, at 512 pages, one of the series' longest -- a substantial entry in Rankin's ongoing, real-time chronicle of his detective's Edinburgh career.
Key facts about Black & Blue
Ian Rankin wrote Black & Blue, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1997. The book has 512 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780752877150 to find the main one.
Black & Blue is book 9 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
Black & Blue is book 9 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows Let It Bleed. It is followed by The Hanging Garden. 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 9780752877150