Inspector Rebus · Book 9
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.
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