description: When a close colleague is brutally attacked, DI John Rebus is drawn into a case involving an unidentified body and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's notebook, Rebus must piece together a jigsaw no one wants completed.
language: English
title: The Black Book
titlecomplete: The Black Book (Inspector Rebus, #5)
characters: Inspector John Rebus
genres: Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Scotland, British Literature, Thriller, Crime, Novels, Fiction, Detective, Mystery
ratings_count: 14698
places: Edinburgh, Scotland
series: Inspector Rebus
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 2. Platz International
publisher: Orion