Inspector Rebus · Book 19
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.
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
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409118480