Inspector Rebus · Book 3
Tooth and Nail
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN-13
- 9780752883557
- Type
- novel
About this book
Tooth and Nail (1992) is the third Rebus book, 304 pages, arriving between Hide and Seek and Strip Jack as Rankin kept building his detective's reputation for rule-bending and insubordination toward his own superiors.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
Tooth and Nail is book 3 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows Hide and Seek. It is followed by Strip Jack. 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 9781409107699
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780752883557