Inspector Rebus · Book 23
The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories
- Published
- 1 January 2014
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN-13
- 9781409151579
- Type
- collection
About this book
"The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories" slots into the Inspector Rebus series after "Rather Be the Devil" and ahead of "In a House of Lies", dated 2014. It is a short-story collection rather than a novel.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories is book 23 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows Rather Be the Devil. It is followed by In a House of Lies. 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 9781409151562
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409151579