Inspector Rebus · Book 1
Knots and Crosses
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 253
- ISBN-13
- 9780752883533
- Type
- novel
About this book
Knots and Crosses (1987) introduces Ian Rankin's John Rebus, the hard-drinking, insomniac Detective Inspector whose stubborn instinct for Edinburgh's underside launches a series that would run for decades. At 253 pages, it's the compact start of a career Rankin wrote to be read in publication order, with the next entry, Hide and Seek, following in 1991.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
Knots and Crosses is book 1 in the Inspector Rebus series. It is followed by Hide and Seek. 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 9780752886220
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780752883533