A Cool Head

A Cool Head
Author(s)	Ian Rankin
Country	Scotland
Language	English
Genre(s)	Crime Fiction novel
Publisher	Orion Press
Publication date	2009
Media type	Print Paperback)
Pages	128 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-7528-8449-2
OCLC Number	271772694

A Cool Head is Ian Rankin's entry in Quick Reads 2009.

Plot summary

Gravy works in a graveyard. One day his friend turns up in a car he doesn't recognise. His friend has a bullet in his chest. Gravy is asked to hide the gun and the body. In the back of the car is blood, and a bag full of money. Soon Gravy is caught up in a bank job gone wrong and is pursued by some mysterious men.

Works by Ian Rankin

Novels	The Flood (1986) · Knots and Crosses (1987) · Watchman (1988) · Westwind (1990) · Hide and Seek (1991) · Tooth and Nail (1992) · Strip Jack (1992) · The Black Book (1993) · Witch Hunt (1993) · Mortal Causes (1994) · Bleeding Hearts (1994) · Let it Bleed (1995) · Blood Hunt (1995) · Black and Blue (1997) · The Hanging Garden (1998) · Dead Souls (1999) · Set in Darkness (2000) · The Falls (2001) · Resurrection Men (2002) · Fleshmarket Close (2003) · A Question of Blood (2004) · The Naming of the Dead (2006) · Exit Music (2007) · Doors Open (2008) · A Cool Head (2009, Quick Reads) · The Complaints (2009) · The Impossible Dead (2011)

Short story collections	A Good Hanging and Other Stories (1992) · Beggars Banquet (2002)

Non-fiction	Rebus's Scotland: A Personal Journey (2005) · Jackie Leven Said (2005, With Jackie Leven)

Graphic novels	Dark Entries (2009)

Short stories	An Afternoon (1984) · Voyeurism (1985) · Colony (1986) · Trip Trap (1992) · Marked For Death (1992) · Well Shot (1993) · Someone Got to Eddie (1994) · A Deep Hole (1994) · Adventures in Babysitting (1995) · Natural Selection (1996) · Auld Lang Syne (1997) · Principles of Accounts (1997) · Death is Not the End (1998) · The Hanged Man (2000) · Saint Nicked (2003) · Soft Spot (2005) · Not Just Another Saturday (2005) · Sinner: Justified (2006)

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