Inspector Rebus · Book 27
Midnight and Blue
- Published
- 10 October 2024
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780316473859
- Type
- novel
About this book
Midnight and Blue (2024) is the twenty-fifth and, to date, most recent Rebus novel, 320 pages, continuing Ian Rankin's decades-long, real-time chronicle of a detective who keeps getting drawn into cases even as his own health and long record catch up with him.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
Midnight and Blue is book 27 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows A Heart Full of Headstones. 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 9781398709423
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316473859