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.
Key facts about The Naming of the Dead
The Naming of the Dead is a novel by Ian Rankin. Readers have had it since 2006. It runs to 472 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of The Naming of the Dead. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781846178443 to find the main one.
The Naming of the Dead is book 17 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 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