This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorIan Rankin
NarratorJames Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 15
Duration14h 40m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherOrion
VersionUnabridged
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 Edinburgh underworld and maybe even fall in love.... Siobhan has problems of her own. A teenager has disappeared from home, and Siobhan is drawn into helping the family, which means travelling too close to the web of a convicted rapist. Then there are two skeletons - a woman and an infant - found buried beneath a concrete cellar floor in Fleshmarket Close. The scene begins to look like an elaborate stunt - but whose and for what purpose? And how can it tie to the murder on the unforgiving housing scheme known as Knoxland?
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 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 11: Set in Darkness
Author: Ian Rankin
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator James Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 11
Duration 6h 43m
Edinburgh is about to become the home of the first Scottish parliament in 300 years. As political passions run high, DI John Rebus is charged with liaison, thanks to the new parliament being resident in Queensbury House, bang in the middle of his patch. But Queensbury House has its own, dark past. Legend has it that a young man was roasted there on...
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Rebus Book 16: The Naming of the Dead
Author: Ian Rankin
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator James Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 16
Duration 14h 21m
A murder has been committed - but as the victim was a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is too concerned about the crime. That is, until Detective Inspector John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke uncover evidence that a serial killer is on the loose... When Rebus also starts looking into the apparent suicide of an MP, he is abruptly warned of...
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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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Rebus Book 20: Even Dogs in the Wild
Author: Ian Rankin
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator James Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 20
Duration 11h 11m
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is investigating the death of a senior lawyer during a robbery. But the case becomes more complex when a note is discovered, indicating that this may have been no random attack. When local gangster Big Ger Cafferty receives an identical message, Clarke decides that the recently retired John Rebus may be able to he...
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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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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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Author: Ian Rankin
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator James Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 6
Duration 9h 31m
It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing... A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving with tourists is almost unthinkable. When the victim tur...
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Author: Ian Rankin
Author Ian Rankin
Narrator James Macpherson
SeriesRebus, Book 12
Duration 6h 45m
A student has gone missing in Edinburgh - completely out of character. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of extremely well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until Detective Inspector John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccusto...
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