Black and Blue

by Ian Rankin, Francisco Martín Arribas (Translator)

Overview

«Johnny Biblia», un apodo surgido de la prensa sensacionalista, es la nueva pesadilla que merodea por los oscuros callejones escoceses. Su nombre evoca al asesino más brutal que la ciudad recuerda, que cometió horrendos crímenes treinta años atrás. Ahora, según todos los indicios, un nuevo monstruo pretende hacerse con la macabra fama que el psicópata original consiguió sin haber sido jamás encarcelado. El inspector John Rebus trabaja en cuatro casos de asesinato que parecen conducir a este anónimo criminal, pero deberá ser cauteloso, ya que la detención del sucesor de Biblia
no será su único desafío.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788490567654
Publisher:	RBA Libros
Publication date:	10/10/2016
Series:	Inspector Rebus (Spanish Language) Series , #8
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	528
File size:	832 KB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

IAN RANKIN (Cardenden, 1960) es uno de los escritores con más carácter de la novela negra actual y su personaje, John Rebus, uno de los policías más carismáticos del género. En 1987, inició con Nudos y cruces la aclamada serie de novelas ambientadas en su Escocia natal, que está siendo publicada por RBA. Con Asuntos internos dio comienzo a una nueva saga protagonizada por el inspector Malcolm Fox. Entre los numerosos galardones con los que se ha reconocido su talento destacan el Edgar Award, recibido en dos ocasiones por Resurrección y Black and Blue (novela que recibió también el Gold Dagger), el Grand Prix de Littérature Policière por En la oscuridad, el Premio Pepe Carvalho 2010 por toda su trayectoria y el X Premio RBA de Novela Policiaca 2016 por Perros salvajes. Asimismo, es caballero de la Orden del Imperio Británico.

Hometown:

Edinburgh, London and France

Date of Birth:

April 28, 1960

Place of Birth:

Cardenden, Scotland

Education:

Edinburgh University

Website:

http://www.ianrankin.net

What People are Saying About This

"Brilliant...the kind of blistering police procedural that gives the genre a good name." --Entertainment Weekly (A rating)

"Reading [Ian Rankin] is like watching somebody juggle a dozen bottles of single malt without spilling a drop." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Ian Rankin is a novelist of great scope, depth, and power, and Black and Blue is a dark, intensely evocative and altogether riveting thriller. Brilliant." --Bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman

"Ian Rankin's Scottish police procedurals are so gritty you have to pick the shards out of your teeth when you finish one, and Black and Blue is as flinty as they come." --The New York Times Book Review

OVERWHELMING ACCLAIM FOR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR IAN RANKIN
"In Rankin you cannot go wrong." --The Boston Globe

"The progenitor--and king--of tartan noir." --James Ellroy, author of L.A. Confidential

"A brutal but beautifully written series...The author pushes the procedural form well past conventional genre limits." --The New York Times Book Review

"A master of mood and setting." --Toronto Globe and Mail

"Rankin gives his inspector a refreshing smart-ass personality." --San Francisco Chronicle

"John Rebus calls for comparison with Colin Dexter's Oxford copper Inspector Morse...Rankin creates a living, breathing world in which his weary protagonist tackles cases while involved in the intricacies of the day-to-day: Pints and hangovers, stumbling romance, wet weather, damp clothes, tricky superiors and wide-eyed subordinates." -- Publishers Weekly

Jonathan Kellerman

Ian Rankin is a novelist of great scope, depth, and power, and Black and Blue is a dark, intensely evocative and altogether riveting thriller. Brilliant.

Editorial Reviews

Brilliant...the kind of blistering police procedural that gives the genre a good name....Rankin's prose is so graceful, the complicated plot so seamless, and the portraits of even minor characters so searing, it makes for an almost flawless performance.

Entertainment Weekly

Ian Rankin's Scottish police procedurals are so gritty you have to pick the shards out of your teeth when you finish one, and Black and Blue is as flinty as they come.

New York Times Book Review

Nearly 30 years after a serial killer dubbed Bible John abruptly retired after three vicious murders, he's back in the news again. Johnny Bible, an equally perverted killer who seems to be much younger, is imitating him with a gusto that suggests close research. Even though he knew one of Johnny Bible's victims, Edinburgh's Inspector John Rebus is in no position to take on this new case; he's got his hands full with a murdered oil-rig painter and the threatened reopening of a case in which he and his mentor, Inspector Lawson Geddes, may have planted evidence years and years ago that framed Lenny Spaven, who went to his death insisting he was innocent. When Rebus takes a few days in Aberdeen to visit the oil company's headquarters and incidentally chat up the locals about another of Johnny Bible's victims, he ends up under suspicion of killing a fourth victim himself and gets stuck with a minder who'll report his every move back to the very same Chief Inspector who's been put in charge of the Spaven case. Can things get any worse? Of course they can. For even though Rebus is behind the eight-ball, another avenger—Bible John himself—is prepared to do whatever it takes to catch the copycat.

Rebus's eighth case (Let It Bleed, 1996, etc.) is his biggest and most grueling so far. Yet Rankin's dexterity in juggling plots and threats and motives lights up the darkness with a poet's grace. Reading him is like watching somebody juggle a dozen bottles of single malt without spilling a drop.

Kirkus Reviews