Inspector Rebus · Book 17
The Naming of the Dead
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 472
- ISBN-13
- 9781846178443
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Naming of the Dead (2006) is the sixteenth Rebus novel, 472 pages, arriving after Fleshmarket Close and ahead of Exit Music as Rankin's real-time approach to his detective's career continued.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
The Naming of the Dead is book 17 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows Fleshmarket Close. It is followed by Exit Music. 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 9780316004404
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781846178443