Ian rankins scottish police procedurals are so gritty you have to pick the shards out of your teeth when you finish one, and black and blue is as flinty as they come. To solve brutal murders, he enters the grittiest sides of edinburgh, the dark. Black and blue by ian rankin, 9781409165859, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. Di john rebus is an oldfashioned copper with a love of offkilter music, and the odd refreshment. The eighth of the inspector rebus novels, it was the first to be adapted in the rebus television series starring john hannah, airing in 2000. Early on his partner brian holmes is assaulted outside his new favourite restaurant the heartbreak cafe. Bible john killed three women, and took three souvenirs. Rankin has already established rebus as a loner that works best on the edges and this book builds on that. Black and blue after years of silence in the unsolved bible john serial killer case, inspector rebus falls smack into the middle of modern copycat. Black and blue inspector rebus book 8 kindle edition by ian rankin.
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Rankins black and blue 1997 was nominated for an edgar and won a gold dagger. In 2011 a group of ten book sculptures were deposited around edinburgh as gifts to. Buy black and blue a rebus novel by rankin, ian isbn. Rebus is juggling four cases trying to nail one killer who might just lead back to the infamous bible john. This selection in scottish gaelic from ian rankin s crime stories is taken from the collections a good hanging 1992 and. Reading ian rankin is like watching somebody juggle a dozen bottles of single malt without spilling a drop. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Inspector rebus must find out, even if it is at the risk of his career. Black and blue by ian rankin overdrive rakuten overdrive. The black book is the fifth ian rankin book to feature rebus his edinburgh based detective and was a very enjoyable read. In 20, rankin cowrote the play dark road with mark thomson, the artistic director of. Unlike the earlier rebus novels, black and blue mixes fact and fiction much more closely. Ian rankin s work is now appearing in university literature departments, as modern examples of complex crime fictional works.
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