The beat goes on
Subtitle: the complete Rebus short stories
By: Ian Rankin
Edition: Paperback edition.
Series: John Rebus
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 611
ISBN-13: 9781409151579
Subjects: Inspector Rebus (Fictitious character); Investigation; Murder; Detective and mystery stories; Fiction
Other titles: Complete Rebus short stories
Description: There is no detective like Ian Rankin's Detective Inspector John Rebus. 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. This book 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 not quite final, retirement in "The Very Last Drop," Rebus shines in these stories, confirming his status as one of crime fiction's most compelling, brilliant, and unforgettable characters. In these gripping, fast-paced tales, the legendary Scottish detective investigates the sinister cases that are his specialty, including a gruesome student death, the brutal murder of a woman at the crux of a love triangle, an audacious jewel heist, suspicious happenings at a nursing home, and an ominous email that brings a family's darkest secrets to light.
Notes: First published: London : Orion Books, 2014.
Table of contents: title: Dead and buried; title: Playback; title: The Dean Curse; title: Being Frank; title: Concrete evidence; title: Seeing things; title: A good hanging; title: Tit for tat; title: Not provan; title: Sunday; title: Auld Lang Syne; title: The Gentlemen's Club; title: Monstrous trumpet; title: My shopping day; title: Talk show; title: Trip trap; title: Castle Dangerous; title: In the frame; title: Facing the music; title: Window of opportunity; title: Death is not the end; title: No sanity clause; title: Tell me who to kill; title: Saint Nicked; title: Atonement; title: Not just another Saturday; title: Penalty Claus; title: The passenger; title: A three-pint problem; title: The very last drop; title: Cinders.