Inspector Rebus · Book 20
Saints of the Shadow Bible
- Published
- 7 November 2013
- Pages
- 389
- ISBN-13
- 9781409129486
- Type
- novel
About this book
Saints of the Shadow Bible (2013), 389 pages, is the nineteenth Rebus book, continuing the series' serialised approach to its detective's health, status and long Edinburgh CID record as he works cases from the fringes of the force.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
Saints of the Shadow Bible is book 20 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows Standing in Another Man's Grave. It is followed by Even Dogs in the Wild. 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 9781409144755
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409129486