Inspector Rebus · Book 13
The Falls
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN-13
- 9780312206109
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Falls (2001) is the twelfth Rebus novel and, at 496 pages, among the series' longest, continuing Rankin's use of Edinburgh itself as almost a character alongside his detective.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
The Falls is book 13 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows Set in Darkness. It is followed by Resurrection Men. 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 0752877259
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312206109