Standing in Another Man's Grave
- Published
- 8 November 2012
- ISBN-13
- 9781409118480
- Type
- novel
About this book
Standing in Another Man's Grave (2012) is the eighteenth Rebus novel, arriving five years after Exit Music and bringing the detective back to active cases as a civilian consultant on a cold-case unit -- part of the series' ongoing, real-time account of his life after formal retirement.
Key facts about Standing in Another Man's Grave
Standing in Another Man's Grave is a novel by Ian Rankin. Readers have had it since 8 November 2012.
Our list holds 1 edition of Standing in Another Man's Grave. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781409118480 to find the main one.
Standing in Another Man's Grave is book 19 of 27 in the Inspector Rebus series. The series has 27 published books. However, the series starts with Knots and Crosses (1987). Midnight and Blue is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 10 October 2024.
Additionally, Ian Rankin writes Jack Laidlaw and Malcolm Fox as separate series. Those series sit on our crime fiction and police procedural shelves. Meanwhile, The Heights is the latest published Ian Rankin book on file, from 8 October 2026.
About Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin is a Scottish crime writer whose Inspector John Rebus series has become one of the defining bodies of work in modern British crime fiction, and whose Edinburgh setting -- rendered in unglamorous, atmospheric detail -- is as much a character in the books as Rebus himself. See every Ian Rankin book in order.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
Standing in Another Man's Grave is book 19 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows Exit Music. It is followed by Saints of the Shadow Bible. 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
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