The Hanging Garden
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 424
- ISBN-13
- 9780752883618
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Hanging Garden (1998), 424 pages, is the ninth book in the sequence, sitting between Black & Blue and Dead Souls as Rankin continued serialising Rebus's relationships and record book to book.
Key facts about The Hanging Garden
Ian Rankin wrote The Hanging Garden, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1998. The book has 424 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780752883618 to find the main one.
The Hanging Garden is book 10 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 Hanging Garden is book 10 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows Black & Blue. It is followed by Dead Souls. 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 9780752818061
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780752883618