Annotation
Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that hes been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last chancers known as resurrection men, he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus own mistake. Now Rebus cant determine if hes been set up for a fall or if his disgraced classmates are as ruthless as he suspects. When Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke discovers that her investigation of an art dealers murder is tied to Rebus inquiry, the twoprotg and mentorjoin forces. Soon they find themselves in the midst of an even bigger scandal than they had imagineda plot with conspirators in every corner of Scotland and deadly implications about their colleagues.With the brilliant eye for character and place that earned him the name the Dickens of Edinburgh, Ian Rankin delivers a page-turning novel of intricate suspense.
Awards
2003 New York Times Notable Books of the Year
2004 Edgar Awards (Edgar Allan Poe Awards)
Characters
| Name | Rebus, John |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Detective inspector |
| Traits | Scottish |
| Divorced | |
| Father |
| Name | Clarke, Siobhan |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Detective sergeant |
| Trait | Scottish |
| Genre | Fiction Mystery --British --Police procedural Suspense |
| Topics | Unsolved crimes Art dealers Murder investigations Organized crime Anger Training Undercover investigations Police corruption Cold cases |
| Setting | Edinburgh, Scotland Scotland |
| Series | ||
| Inspector Rebus mystery | ||
| 1 | Knots and crosses | |
| 2 | Hide and seek | |
| 3 | Tooth and nail | |
| 4 | Strip jack | |
| A Good hanging (collection) | ||
| 5 | The Black book | |
| 6 | Mortal causes | |
| 7 | Let it bleed | |
| 8 | Black and blue | |
| 9 | The Hanging garden | |
| 10 | Dead souls | |
| Death is not the end (novella) | ||
| 11 | Set in darkness | |
| 12 | The Falls | |
| 13 | Resurrection men | |
| 14 | A Question of blood | |
| 15 | Fleshmarket close | |
| 16 | The Naming of the dead | |
| 17 | Exit music | |
| 18 | Standing in another man's grave | |
| 19 | Saints of the shadow bible | |
| 20 | Even dogs in the wild | |
| 21 | Rather be the devil | |
| 22 | In a house of lies | |
| 23 | A Song for dark times | |
| 24 | A Heart full of headstones | |
| 25 | Midnight and blue | |