Inspector Rebus · Book 6
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.
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