Inspector Rebus · Book 12
Set in Darkness
- Published
- 1 January 2000
- Pages
- 466
- ISBN-13
- 9780312977894
- Type
- novel
About this book
Set in Darkness (2000), the eleventh entry at 466 pages, is a millennium-era Rebus procedural, part of the unbroken publication-order run Rankin wrote his detective's ageing career into.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
Set in Darkness is book 12 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows Dead Souls. It is followed by The Falls. 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 9780312977894