Read the John Rebus novels in order!
Discover the complete John Rebus reading order from Ian Rankin’s iconic series, including Knots & Crosses, Black and Blue, and The Falls. Start with the Inspector Rebus novels in sequence for the best crime fiction experience.
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Knots and Crosses
by Ian Rankin
Detective Sergeant John Rebus must solve the case of the "Edinburgh Strangler" before the killer strikes again.
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Hide and Seek
by Ian Rankin
Detective Inspector John Rebus is the only one who see that an drug addict's death is not an accident but murder.
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Tooth and Nail
by Ian Rankin
Rebes accepts help from Dr Liza Frazer in an attempt to catch the 'Wolfman', a serial killer who takes a bit from his victims and leaves them on Wolf Street.
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The Hanging Garden
by Ian Rankin
Inspector John Rebus of the Edinburgh police hunts for a World War II criminal, a Nazi officer who massacred an entire village in France. At the same time he has to bust a ring which is importing East European prostitutes.
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Set in Darkness
by Ian Rankin
When three bodies are discovered at Queensbury House, home to the new Scottish Parliament, Rebus finds himself digging up secrets twenty years buried.
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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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Fleshmarket Alley
by Ian Rankin
On a notorious street where propriety and decadence clash, in the basement of a newly renovated bar, the bones of a woman and child are discovered beneath a cement floor. It's an unusually gruesome find, even for Fleshmarket Alley. When Inspector John Rebus is called to investigate, every fact he finds unleashes a host of new questions. Are the bones those of a mother and child? Are they actual human remains or fakes? Were they planted there - and if so, why?It could be nothing more than a ruthless and enterprising pub owner looking to create a local legend that will help lure trade. Or it could be something far worse - something as grisly as the death of a recent immigrant found brutally murdered at a local housing project, or the murder of Donald Cruikshank, a recently paroled rapist whose body is found just as a young woman goes missing. The missing girl is a friend of Inspector Rebus's colleague Detective Siobhan Clarke, and Siobhan is shocked to find herself in the same intricate web of murderers as Rebus - all somehow tied to that pile of bones under Fleshmarket Alley.In a race to stop the killings before more bodies turn up - even as the possibility of romantic entanglements distracts and entices them - Rebus and Siobhan plumb the darkest corners of their beloved city and confront the lawless, conscienceless men who dwell there. Writing with the unstoppable narrative force that has made him one of the bestselling writers in the world, Edgar Award-winner Ian Rankin delivers his most explosive and surprising mystery yet.
