Inspector Rebus · Book 24
In a House of Lies
- Published
- 1 January 2018
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9781409188360
- Type
- novel
About this book
In a House of Lies (2018), the twenty-second entry at 384 pages, finds an aging Rebus -- by this stage in the series dealing with declining health -- still getting pulled back into cases despite his retirements.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
In a House of Lies is book 24 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories. It is followed by A Song for the Dark Times. 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 9781409188360