num_pages: 340
description: When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's notebook, Rebus must piece together the most complex and confusing of jigsaws. But not everyone wants the puzzle solved - perhaps not even Rebus himself ...
language: English
title: The Black Book
titlecomplete: The Black Book
characters: Inspector John Rebus
genres: Crime, Suspense, Scotland, Novels, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Detective, Mystery, British Literature
ratings_count: 14687
places: Edinburgh, Scotland
series: Inspector Rebus
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 2. Platz International
publisher: Orion