Inspector Rebus · Book 18
Exit Music
- Published
- 6 September 2007
- Pages
- 419
- ISBN-13
- 9781409176640
- Type
- novel
About this book
Exit Music (2007), 419 pages, is the seventeenth book and was, for a time, billed as Rebus's last case before mandatory retirement -- a milestone the series would later revisit rather than end on, with Rebus returning as a civilian cold-case consultant in the books that followed.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
Exit Music is book 18 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows The Naming of the Dead. It is followed by Standing in Another Man's Grave. 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 9780752868608
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409176640