Black and Blue

Name: Black and Blue
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ian Rankin
ISBN: 9781480523708

Author: Ian Rankin

Series: Inspector Rebus Series #8

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 14 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 12/10/2013

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled

Synopsis

A murdered oil rig worker. A copycat serial killer dubbed “Johnny Bible.” And a reopened investigation that doesn’t bode well for Detective John Rebus or his mentor, Inspector Lawson Geddes. Rebus’s Scotland, along with his malt-soaked psyche, is riddled with trouble. Now he’s got to tie up the loose ends if he wants to save his job—or live to see another dark Edinburgh day.“Ian Rankin’s 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.” —The New York Times Book Review“Reading [Ian Rankin] is like watching somebody juggle a dozen bottles of single malt without spilling a drop.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

About Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin is a worldwide #1 bestselling writer and has won an Edgar Award, a Gold Dagger for fiction, a Diamond Dagger for career excellence, and the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on June 30, 2024

I think the reason I like the Rebus novels so much stems from the fact that they have so much more in common with American noir fiction than they do with the classic British whodunit. Rankin’s frontman is a hardened (SAS trained), drinking man with sometimes dubious scruples but one who cares passio......more

Goodreads review by Dannii on June 23, 2017

It has been a while since I have indulged in some Ian Rankin crime fiction and this book has reminded me why I classify his books as pure escapism! Despite being first published twenty years ago, this book has a lasting relevancy and an enjoyment that can be garnered from a contemporary reader used t......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on December 17, 2016

Gold Dagger Winner, 1997 - “This book almost killed me! So I’m glad there’s been some recompense.” – Ian Rankin, January 6th 1998. Rankin's coming of age, hard-boiled police procedural is one of my all time favourite crime novels. Serial killer ”Bible John” murdered three people 30 years ago, and the......more

Goodreads review by John on November 17, 2023

A great thriller. Rebus is trying to find the murderer of an oil worker that was murdered. It leads him to Aberdeen. Where he uncovers Bible John an actual real serial killer who murdered severs women in Glasgow with in the late 1960s. Another serial killer is imitating him and the real Bible John i......more