This is a tour de force and well worth a read. Rankin states that he especially enjoyed making them successful in this novel. They lasted only a year and were not very successful. INTERVIEW: Ian Rankin Exile on Princes Street: Inspector Rebus & I (Tangled Web) -INTERVIEW: Ian Rankin Starless & Bible Black: The Serial Killer Who Refuses to Die -The BookEnds Interview: IAN RANKIN -Ian Rankin (reviews, etc. Rankin presents a fictional version of The Dancing Pigs, a punk band for which he sang when he was 19. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. The title refers not only to the physical beating Rebus gets in this novel it also refers to the Rolling Stones album Black and Blue and in the foreword to the novel Rankin says that the title also alludes to the black of oil and the boys in blue - the police. Black and Blue (Inspector Rebus, 8) Published August 25th 2016 by Orion Publishing Company (United Kingdom) Special Edition, Paperback, 522 pages. Rebus travels between Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen and then on to Shetland and the North Sea. TV journalists are meanwhile investigating Rebus over a miscarriage of justice.

He has to do it while under an internal inquiry led by a man he has accused of taking bribes from Glasgow's 'Mr Big'. In this novel Detective Inspector John Rebus is working on four cases at once trying to catch a killer he suspects of being the infamous Bible John. Ian Rankin is perhaps the UKs foremost crime writer, best-known for his extensive series of novels set in Edinburgh and featuring Detective Inspector John.

The eighth of the Inspector Rebus novels. Orion, 1997 - Detective and mystery stories - 394 pages.

Black and Blue is a 1997 crime novel by Ian Rankin.

Black and Blue by Ian Rankin