Ian Rankin
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Brilliant, irascible and frequently frustrating to both his friends and his long-suffering bosses, John Rebus has made the dark places of Edinburgh his home for over two decades. THE BEAT GOES ON collects all of Ian Rankin's Rebus short stories for the first time, including two never-before published tales written specifically for this collection. From his beginnings as a young Detective Constable in "Dead and Buried," right up to his dramatic, but...
22) Witch hunt
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Pursued by three obsessed detectives, an assassin known as Witch undertakes an assignment with global ramifications that forces those who are investigating her to follow leads within the highest ranks of international law and finance.
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 18
Publisher
Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Two Scottish detectives investigate the disappearance of a hitchhiking teenage girl, their only clue a photo sent from the missing girl's cell phone.
Rebus has never shied away from lost causes, one of the many ways he managed to antagonize his bosses when he was on the force. Now he's back as a retired civilian, reviewing abandoned files. Necessary work, but it's not exactly scratching the itch he feels to be in the heart of the action. He's investigating...
24) The falls
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Edinburgh detective John Rebus gets involved with the case of a missing young woman. His only clues are an Internet-based role-playing game and a wooden doll stuffed into a tiny casket.
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
While investigating a series of gory killings of young, innocent girls, Edinburgh police detective John Rebus, a former member of Britain's elite SAS, discovers his own ties to the killer and is brought up against his own memories, which hold the key to unraveling the case.
26) The black book
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 5
Publisher
O. Penzler Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Five years ago, a mysterious fire burned Edinburgh's seedy Central Hotel to ashes. Long-forgotten and unsolved, the case reappears when a charred body--with a bullet in its head--is found among the ruins. Inspector John Rebus knows that his superiors would prefer he leave things alone. He knows that part of the answer lies somewhere in a cryptic black notebook. And he knows that to solve the case, he'll have to peel back layer after layer of unspeakable...
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 9.5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Inspector John Rebus of the Edinburgh police hunts for a World War II criminal, a Nazi officer who massacred an entire village in France. At the same time he has to bust a ring which is importing East European prostitutes.
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 15
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
30) Hide and seek
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"At night the summer sky stays light over Edinburgh. But in a shadowy, crumbling housing development, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his bruised body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship. John Rebus could call the death and accident--but won't. Instead, he tracks down a violent-tempered young woman who knew the dead boy and heard him cry out his terrifyng last words: "Hide! Hide!" Now, with the help of a bright, conflicted young detective, Rebus...
31) Let it bleed
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 7
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
34) Mortal causes
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In Edinburgh you're never far from a peaceful spot, or from a hellish one either. Now, in the heart of summer, in the midst of a nationalist festival, Inspector John Rebus is on the murder case of a young man left hanging in a spot where his screams would never be heart. To find the victim's identity--and his killer--Rebus searches from Edinburgh's most violent neighborhood to Belfast, Northern Ireland, among petty thugs, gunrunners, and heavyweight...
37) The dark remains
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
In this crime prequel, two crime writers team up for the first ever case of D.I. Laidlaw, Glasgow's original gritty detective who is standing in the midst of gangs, organized crime bosses, crooked politicians, corrupt police and innocent battlers caught in the crossfire.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
John Rebus is a hard bitten detective who pursures truth on the gritty streets of modern-day Edinburgh. "The falls": After the gruesome murder of a prominent physician, Rebus and Clarke soon find themselves hot on the trail of an apparent serial killer. "Fleshmarket close": When a beautiful young seamstress goes missing, the search takes Rebus and Clarke to the mean, melting streets of Knoxland Estate, the high-rise project that houses Edinburgh's...
39) Rebus: Set 2
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The black book: When a part-time prostitute turns up in a shallow grave among shale hills known locally as the Five Sisters, Rebus links her murder with the death of another young woman 10 years earlier. He targets a distinguished member of Parliament as the prime suspect for both cases. But the real proof may lie in an anonymously mailed book, lavishly illustrated and written in rune-like code.
A question of blood: Called to investigate a college...