Black and Blue (novel)
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| Author | Ian Rankin |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Detective novel |
| Publisher | Orion Press |
| Publication date | 1997 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 512 pages |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-7528-0948-2 |
| Preceded by | Let it Bleed |
| Followed by | The Hanging Garden |
Black and Blue is a 1997 novel by Ian Rankin. It is the eighth of the Inspector Rebus novels. It was the first episode in the Rebus television series starring John Hannah, airing in 2000.
It is considered a landmark entry in the Tartan Noir genre, with Gill Plain writing a reader's guide to it in 2002. [1]
[edit] Plot summary
Detective Inspector John Rebus is working on four cases at once trying to catch a killer he suspects of being the infamous Bible John. He has to do it while under an internal inquiry led by a man he has accused of taking bribes from Glasgow's "Mr Big". TV journalists are meanwhile investigating Rebus over a miscarriage of justice. Rebus travels between Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen and then on to Shetland and the North Sea.
The title refers to the Rolling Stones album Black and Blue.
A fictionalised version of The Dancing Pigs - the punk band Rankin sang for - appear briefly in cameo.[2]
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