This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorIan Rankin
NarratorJames Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 14
Duration13h 2m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherOrion
VersionUnabridged
A shooting incident at a private school just north of Edinburgh. Two 17-year olds killed by an ex-Army loner who has gone off the rails. As Detective Inspector John Rebus puts it, 'there's no mystery'... except the why. This question takes Rebus into the heart of a shattered community. Ex-Army himself, Rebus becomes fascinated by the killer, and finds he is not alone. Army investigators are on the scene, and won't be shaken off. The killer had friends and enemies to spare - ranging from civic leaders to the local Goths - leaving behind a legacy of secrets and lies. Rebus has his share of personal problems, too. He's fresh out of hospital, hands heavily bandaged, and he won't say how it happened. Could there be a connection with a house-fire and the unfortunate death of a petty criminal who had been harassing Rebus's colleague Siobhan Clarke? Rebus's bosses seem to think so...
Rebus Book 21: Rather Be the Devil
Author: Ian Rankin
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator James Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 21
Duration 10h 45m
Forty years may have passed, but the death of Maria Turquand still preys on John Rebus' mind. Murdered in her hotel room on the night a famous rock star was staying there, Maria's killer has never been found. Meanwihle, the dark heart of Edinburgh remains up for gabs. A young pretender may have staked his claim, but has old-time crime boss Big Ger...
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Author: Ian Rankin
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator James Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 2
Duration 8h 2m
A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spread-eagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict - until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Only Re...
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Author: Ian Rankin
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator James Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 7
Duration 10h 13m
Struggling through another Edinburgh winter Rebus finds himself sucked into a web of intrigue that throws up more questions than answers. Was the Lord Provost's daughter kidnapped or just another runaway? Why is a city councillor shredding documents that should have been waste paper years ago? And why on Earth is Rebus invited to a clay pigeon shoo...
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Author: Ian Rankin
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator James Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 5
Duration 9h 52m
When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's notebook, Rebus must piece together the most complex and confusing of jigsaws. But not...
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Author: Ian Rankin
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator James Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 25
Duration 10h 23m
As new allies and old enemies circle, and the days and nights bleed into each other, even the legendary detective struggles to keep his head. That is, until a murder at midnight in a locked cell presents a new mystery. They say old habits die hard... However, this is a case where the prisoners and the guards are all suspects, and everyone has somet...
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Rebus Book 13: Resurrection Men
Author: Ian Rankin
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator James Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 13
Duration 14h 40m
Rebus is off the case - literally. A few days into the murder inquiry of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus blows up at a colleague. He is sent to the Scottish Police College for 'retraining' - in other words, he's in the Last Chance Saloon. Rebus is assigned to an old, unsolved case, but there are those in his team who have their own secrets - and the...
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Rebus Book 15: Fleshmarket Close
Author: Ian Rankin
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator James Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 15
Duration 14h 40m
An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack or something else? Rebus is drawn into the case but has other problems: his old police station has closed, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. As Rebus investigates, he must visit an asylum seekers' detention centre, deal with the sleazy Edi...
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Rebus Book 1: Knots and Crosses
Author: Ian Rankin
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator James Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 1
Duration 6h 25m
'And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you...?' 'That sort of thing' is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking and drinking too much, his own young daughter spirited...
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Author: Ian Rankin
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator James Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 4
Duration 9h 52m
Gregor Jack, MP, well-liked, young, married to the fiery Elizabeth - to the outside world a very public success story. But Jack's carefully nurtured career plans take a tumble after a 'mistake' during a police raid on a notorious Edinburgh brothel. Then Elizabeth disappears, a couple of bodies float into view where they shouldn't, and a lunatic spe...
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Rebus Book 9: The Hanging Garden
Author: Ian Rankin
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator James Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 9
Duration 11h 43m
DI Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork but an escalating dispute between the upstart Tommy Telford and Big Ger Cafferty's gang gives Rebus an escape clause. Telford is known to have close links with a Chechen gangster bringing refugees into Britain as prostitutes. When Rebus takes under his wing a distraught Bosnian call girl, it gives him a...
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