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  1. Detective John Rebus: Book 1

    Knots and Crosses

    by Ian Rankin

    While investigating a series of gory killings of young, innocent girls, Edinburgh police detective John Rebus discovers his own ties to the killer and is brought up against his own memories. Reprint. AB. K.

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  2. Detective John Rebus: Book 2

    Hide and Seek

    by Ian Rankin

    At night the summer sky stays light over Edinburgh. But in a shadowy, crumbling housing development, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his bruised body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship. John Rebus could call the death and accident--but won't. Instead, he tracks down a violent-tempered... (learn more about this book)

  3. Detective John Rebus: Book 13

    Resurrection Men

    by Ian Rankin

    Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But... (learn more about this book)

  4. Detective John Rebus: Book 12

    The Falls

    by Ian Rankin

    When the privileged daughter of a merchant banker disappears, a search through her e-mails uncovers her secret life-and a bizarre correspondence with an on-line game player who delights in macabre puzzles. The first game was for the girl. The next one is for Inspector John Rebus, a man haunted... (learn more about this book)

  5. Detective John Rebus: Book 16

    The Naming of the Dead

    by Ian Rankin

    The leaders of the free world descend on Scotland for an international conference, and every cop in the country is needed for front-line duty...except one. John Rebus's reputation precedes him, and his bosses don't want him anywhere near Presidents Bush and Putin, which explains why he's... (learn more about this book)

  6. Detective John Rebus: Book 3

    Tooth and Nail

    by Ian Rankin

    Sent to London to help catch a vicious serial killer, Inspector John Rebus teams up with a beautiful psychologist to piece together a portrait of a depraved psychopath bent on painting the town red-with blood...

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  7. Detective John Rebus: Book 17

    Exit Music

    by Ian Rankin

    It's late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. Rebus... (learn more about this book)

  8. Detective John Rebus: Book 14

    A Question of Blood

    by Ian Rankin

    When a former soldier and recluse murders two 17-year-old students at a posh Edinburgh boarding school, Inspector John Rebus immediately suspects there is more to the case than meets the eye.

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  9. Detective John Rebus: Book 15

    Fleshmarket Alley

    by Ian Rankin

    Also published as Fleshmarket Alley.

    #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin sends Inspector John Rebus into the dark streets of Edinburgh's flesh trade when a shocking murder exposes an even more sinister underworld. Inspector John Rebus has confronted Edinburgh's most hardened... (learn more about this book)

  10. Detective John Rebus: Book 8

    Black & Blue

    by Ian Rankin

    Bible John killed three women, and took three souvenirs. Johnny Bible killed to steal his namesake's glory. Oilman Allan Mitchelson died for his principles. And convict Lenny Spaven died just to prove a point. "Bible John" terrorized Glasgow in the sixties and seventies, murdering three women... (learn more about this book)

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