Black and Blue
Bible John had terrorized Glasgow in the 60s and 70s and was never caught. Now a copy-cat is at work. Its just the case for John Rebus, except that a run-in with a crooked senior officer has shunted him off to one of Edinburghs toughest suburbs where hes investigating the murder of an off-duty...
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Bible John had terrorized Glasgow in the 60s and 70s and was never caught. Now a copy-cat is at work. Its just the case for John Rebus, except that a run-in with a crooked senior officer has shunted him off to one of Edinburghs toughest suburbs where hes investigating the murder of an off-duty oilman. To find the killer, Rebus travels north where he is suddenly caught in the glare of the media spotlight. One mistake and Rebus could lose his job or his life!
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780783884431 (0783884435)
Publish date: April 1st 1998
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 626
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Detective,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense,
Scotland
Series: Inspector Rebus (#8)
I wasn't sure if I should open with: He went into the toilets again, just to steady his breathing and look at himself in the mirror. He tried to relax his jaw muscles. In the past, he'd have been reaching for the quarter-bottle of whisky in his pocket. But tonight there was no quarter-bottle, no Du...
This book takes Rebus all the way to Aberdeen to investigate the death of an off duty oil worker though that case soon takes a back seat to a couple of serial killer plots. Rebus is at his most obsessive and his dogged pursuit of justice was a bit wearing but overall a good solid read.
Recommended by my wife, and I liked it, it was a definite page turner, but didn't feel it excelled really. I thought there was a neat idea with the two serial killers and one as a character, but I didn't feel there was much to the characters. Rebus seemed a bit stereotyped as the good cop with pro...
re-read via tv film: IMDB BLURB The first of the REBUS programs introduces the Scottish Detective Inspector John Rebus as he untangles the various strands of the interwoven web of criminal intrigues from Leith, Edinburgh to Aberdeen and Glasgow and points between. A serial killer of young women of t...
I used to be quite the mystery reader, having cut my teeth on the Hardy Boys and Sherlock Holmes stories while still in grade school, then progressing through Agatha Christie, John D. MacDonald, and Dashiell Hammett in high school, to Rex Stout, James Ellroy, James Crumley, Robert Parker, Sue Grafto...
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