Inspector Rebus · Book 10
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.
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