Inspector Rebus · Book 21
Even Dogs in the Wild
- Published
- 1 January 2015
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9781409159483
- Type
- novel
About this book
Even Dogs in the Wild (2015) is the twentieth Rebus novel, 368 pages, pairing Rebus once again with his old adversary-turned-uneasy-ally Big Ger Cafferty as Rankin's long-running feud between the two continued into the later books.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
Even Dogs in the Wild is book 21 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows Saints of the Shadow Bible. It is followed by Rather Be the Devil. 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 9781409159360
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409159483