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Author
Series
Malcolm Fox mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
'Mustn't complain' -- but people always do... Nobody likes The Complaints -- they're the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their full title, but known colloquially as 'The Dark Side', or simply 'The Complaints'. It's where Malcolm Fox works. He's just had a result, and should be feeling good about himself. But he's a man with problems of his own. He has an increasingly frail father in a care home and...
Author
Series
Malcolm Fox mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
The Complaints: that's the name given to the Internal Affairs department who seek out dirty and compromised cops, the ones who've made deals with the devil. And sometimes The Complaints must travel. A major inquiry into a neighboring police force sees Malcolm Fox and his colleagues cast adrift, unsure of territory, protocol, or who they can trust. An entire station-house looks to have been compromised, but as Fox digs deeper he finds the trail leads...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a former soldier and recluse murders two 17-year-old students at a posh Edinburgh boarding school, Rebus immediately suspects there is more to the case than meets the eye. Army investigators show up to snoop around the scene of the crime, and links between the killer and a local group of "Goths" (a morbid clique of black-clad teens who listen to heavy metal music) begin to surface. But just as Rebus finds himself in the thick of the murder inquiry,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"John Rebus stands accused: on trial for a crime that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. But what drove a good man to cross the line? Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke may well find out. Clarke is tasked with the city's most explosive case in years, an infamous cop, at the center of decades of misconduct, has gone missing. Finding him will expose not only her superiors, but her mentor John Rebus. And Rebus himself may not have her...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
399 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a young student mysteriously disappears, Inspector John Rebus and his associate, Detective Constable Siobhan Clarke, come up with two bizarre clues-a carved wooden doll in a coffin and an Internet role-playing game- and must follow a deadly trail of similar dolls and coffins, from Edingburgh's dark body-snatching past to a fiendishly clever modern-day killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
St Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rebus has been assigned to a bogus task force called the Policing of Parliament Liaison Committee. Things liven up, though, when a body is found inside a bricked-up fireplace in one of the buildings under construction for the new Scottish Parliament and a top politico is found dead at the construction site.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
John Rebus returns to investigate the disappearances of three women from the same road over ten years. For the last decade, Nina Hazlitt has been ready to hear the worst about her daughter's disappearance. But with no sightings, no body, and no suspect, the police investigation ground to a halt long ago, and Nina's pleas to the cold case department have led her nowhere. Until she meets the newest member of the team: former Detective John Rebus. Rebus...
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus volume 2
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2011, c1990
Physical Desc
261 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat and he's just another dead addict. Nobody but Detective Inspector John Rebus, prowling the streets of the city in search of something so evil he can almost taste it, confronting the darkness within himself as well as without, gives a damn. Rebus digs deeper into the death which looks more and more like murder. There is something savage and seductive at large in Edinburgh, something from which there is nowhere...
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus volume 5
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
It all happened because John Rebus was in his favorite Edinburgh massage parlor reading the Bible... So opens the latest Rebus mystery and within a few pages the hapless Rebus has lost a lover, found an unwanted brother, been reacquainted with a dangerous ghost from the past, and witnessed the black comedy of life in a blood soaked Edinburgh butcher's shop. Or as Rebus puts it, 'just one of those weeks'.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2013], c1996
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the dark days and biting windstorms of an Edinburgh winter, two drop-out kids dive off the towering Forth Road Bridge. A civic office is spattered by a grisly gun blast. Two suicides and a murder that just don't add up, unless John Rebus can crunch the numbers. Following a trail that snakes through stark alleys and sad bars, shredded files and lacerated lives, Rebus finds himself up against a murderous conglomerate on the make in every arena of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The last people to die in Mary King's Close had been plague victims. But that was in the 1700s. Now a body has been discovered, brutally tortured and murdered in Edinburgh's buried city. Inspector John Rebus, ex army, spots a paramilitary link, but how can this be true? It is August in Edinburgh, the Festival is in full swing. No one wants to contemplate terrorism in the thronging city streets. Special Branch are interested, however, and Rebus finds...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
561 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector John Rebus has confronted Edinburgh's most hardened criminals, its bloodiest crime scenes, and its most dangerous backstreets--but nothing could prepare him for what he finds on Fleshmarket Alley. In the city's red-light district, men go to live out their fantasies, and women with no other choice sell their bodies to make a buck. It's a neighborhood of lost inhibitions, scruples, and dreams. In its seediest clubs, refugees seeking asylum...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
452 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
July 2005, and the G8 leaders have gathered in Scotland. With daily marches, demonstrations, and scuffles, the police are at full stretch. Detective Inspector John Rebus, however, has been sidelined, until the apparent suicide of an MP coincides with clues that a serial killer may be on the loose. The authorities are keen to hush up both, for fear of overshadowing a meeting of global importance - but Rebus has never been one to stick to the rules,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2014, p2016.
Physical Desc
877 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects all of Ian Rankin's Rebus short stories for the first time, including two never-before published tales written specifically for this collection. From his beginnings as a young Detective Constable in "Dead and Buried," right up to his dramatic, but not quite final, retirement in "The Very Last Drop," Rebus shines in these stories, confirming his status as one of crime fiction's most compelling, brilliant, and unforgettable characters. In these...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector John Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his investigations into a suspected war criminal. His immediate supervisors are more than happy to have him tucked away in a quiet backwater for several months, but the escalating dispute between the upstart Tommy Telford and Big Ger Cafferty's gang gives Rebus an escape clause.
Telford is known to have close ties to a man nicknamed Mr. Pink Eyes, a brutal gangster running...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
421 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 discovers that an elite delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, looking to expand its interests. And as Rebus's investigation gains ground, someone brutally assaults...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
They call him the Wolfman -- because he takes a bite out of his victims and because they found the first victim in the East End's lonely Wolf Street. Scotland Yard are anxious to find the killer and Inspector Rebus is drafted in to help. But his Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn't happy at yet more interference, and Rebus finds himself dealing with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac. When Rebus is offered...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1995, c1987
Physical Desc
228 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once John Rebus was a Para, served in the elite SAS. Now he's an Edinburgh policeman who spends time evading his memories, missing promotion opportunities, and right now ignoring a series of crank letters. But as the murders go on happening right under his nose, Rebus cannot ignore the presence of a serial killer stalking the city streets any longer. He isn't the only detective working the case, but he is the only one with all the pieces to the puzzle...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
482 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Vigilantes appear in a housing complex in Edinburgh after police reveal a convicted child molester is living among them. Inspector Rebus, already up to his ears with a released serial killer, is put on the case.
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