Inspector Rebus · Book 11
Dead Souls
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 472
- ISBN-13
- 9780312974206
- Type
- novel
About this book
Dead Souls (1999) is the tenth Rebus novel, 472 pages, published as Siobhan Clarke -- introduced as a rookie DC in the earlier books -- continued growing into the more capable detective she becomes across the series.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
Dead Souls is book 11 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows The Hanging Garden. It is followed by Set in Darkness. 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 9780752823430
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312974206