Inspector Rebus · Book 7
Mortal Causes
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780752883588
- Type
- novel
About this book
Mortal Causes (1994) is the sixth Rebus novel, 320 pages, drawing on the old sectarian grudges that Ian Rankin threads through Edinburgh's darker New Town as a recurring backdrop for the series.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
Mortal Causes is book 7 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows The Black Book. It is followed by Let It Bleed. 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 9780754017714
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780752883588