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.
Key facts about The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories
The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories is a collection by Ian Rankin. Readers have had it since 2014. It runs to 496 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781409151579 to find the main one.
The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories is book 23 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
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