The Black Book
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 346
- ISBN-13
- 9781407235028
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Black Book (1993), 346 pages, is the fifth numbered Rebus novel, deepening the series' ongoing preoccupation with Edinburgh's corrupt councillors and gangland ties beneath its tourist-friendly surface.
Key facts about The Black Book
The Black Book is a novel by Ian Rankin. Readers have had it since 1993. It runs to 346 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of The Black Book. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781407235028 to find the main one.
The Black Book is book 6 of 27 in the Inspector Rebus series. The series has 27 published books. However, the series starts with Knots and Crosses (1987). Midnight and Blue is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 10 October 2024.
Additionally, Ian Rankin writes Jack Laidlaw and Malcolm Fox as separate series. Those series sit on our crime fiction and police procedural shelves. Meanwhile, The Heights is the latest published Ian Rankin book on file, from 8 October 2026.
About Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin is a Scottish crime writer whose Inspector John Rebus series has become one of the defining bodies of work in modern British crime fiction, and whose Edinburgh setting -- rendered in unglamorous, atmospheric detail -- is as much a character in the books as Rebus himself. See every Ian Rankin book in order.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
The Black Book is book 6 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows A Good Hanging and Other Stories. It is followed by Mortal Causes. 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 9780312565640
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781407235028