Inspector Rebus · Book 8
Let It Bleed
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780752883595
- Type
- novel
About this book
Let It Bleed (1995), the seventh entry at 368 pages, keeps Rebus working his mystery-of-the-week cases while his uneasy, feud-turned-alliance with gangster Big Ger Cafferty continues to simmer beneath the plot.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
Let It Bleed is book 8 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows Mortal Causes. It is followed by Black & Blue. 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 9781409107651
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780752883595