Inspector Rebus · Book 16
Fleshmarket Close
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9780752869155
- Type
- novel
About this book
Fleshmarket Close (2004), the fifteenth entry at 448 pages, precedes The Naming of the Dead in the sequence, another instalment in Rebus's rule-bending, Edinburgh-soaked run of cases.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
Fleshmarket Close is book 16 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows A Question of Blood. It is followed by The Naming of the Dead. 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 9780752864679
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780752869155