The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Short Stories
The complete collection of short stories featuring John Rebus
The complete collection of short stories featuring John Rebus
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781409151555 (1409151557)
Publish date: 2014
Publisher: Orion Books
Pages no: 451
Edition language: English
The Beat Goes On is a collection of short stories concerning John Rebus-right from his time as DS to DI, with another story concerning him whilst he was retired but still going at it like a good ole Detective.Ian Rankin is sublime, even in the shorter format of storytelling. Each story is just a sni...
Published October 9th 2014. Can a writer copyright a city? Rankin has surely done that regarding Edinburgh. The stories in this collection are a mixed bag. Some of them are less intricate than others, but all are filled with small yet important details of Rebus’s/Rankin’s Edinburgh. Thinking abo...
For the first time, Ian Rankin has put all his short stories featuring one of fiction's most iconic characters in one volume. There are 29 of them, tracing his career from the beginning (1987) to present. If you're a fan you'll be able to spot where they fit chronologically between the novels. In an...