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Black & Blue (Inspector Rebus, #08) by Ian Rankin, FRANCISCO MARÍN is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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SUMMARY: "I'm a peeper, he thought, a voyeur. All cops are. But he knew he was more than that: he liked to get involved in the lives around him. He had a need to know which went beyond voyeurism. It was a drug. And the thing was, when he had all this knowledge, he then had to use booze to blank it out..." In his ninth outing, Edinburgh's glowering and tenacious Inspector John Rebus finds a unique way of cutting back on alcohol. Convinced that Rebus might lie or try to destroy evidence in the reopened case of a man convicted of a murder he probably didn't commit, the investigating officer assigns him a babysitter. Luckily, the minder is one of Rebus's old mentors, Jack Morton, a former drinking buddy now waging a successful battle against the bottle. Rebus and Morton burn off energy and anger repainting Rebus's apartment, while trying to clear Rebus's name and exploring the connection between a recent string of murders and a real-life Scottish serial killer of the 1970s known as Bible John. The cases take Rebus to Aberdeen and an oil platform in the North Atlantic, but as usual the main action happens within the mind and soul of Rankin's meticulously crafted creation. Previous entri
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- Author
- Ian Rankin, FRANCISCO MARÍN
- Publisher
- Orion Pub Co
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780752809489
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, True Crime, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.08 / 5 (153 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Black & Blue (Inspector Rebus, #08) (1997)
- Black & Blue (Inspector Rebus, #08) (2005)
- Rebus 08 - Black & Blue (1998)
- Black and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Mystery (Inspector Rebus Novels) (1997)
- Black & Blue: An Inspector Rebus Novel (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) (1998)
- Black and Blue (Inspector Rebus, #08) (2005)
- Black & blue : an Inspector Rebus novel (1998)
- Black and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Mystery (Inspector Rebus Novels) (2009)
- Black and Blue (2005)
- Black and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Mystery (Inspector Rebus Novels) (2008)
- BLACK and BLUE: An Inspector Rebus Novel (2000)
- Black and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Mystery (Inspector Rebus series Book 8) (2009)
- Black & blue [bk. 8] : an Inspector Rebus mystery (1997)
- Black and blue, an Inspector Rebus mystery (1997)
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