Midnight and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Novel
From #1 international bestselling author Ian Rankin, John Rebus spent his life as a cop putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars-but after being convicted of a homicide, he's joining them instead.

A convict is brutally murdered in his locked cell deep in the heart of Scotland's most infamous prison. Sleeping in a cell across the floor lies John Rebus, the equally notorious detective. Stripped of his badge and estranged from his police family, he is now fighting for his own life - protected by an old nemesis but always one wrong move away from the shank. As new allies and old enemies circle, and the days and nights bleed into each other, even this legendary figure struggles to keep his head.

They say old habits die hard, though. The death stirs Rebus's deductive - and manipulative - impulses, setting off a domino-chain of scheming criminals, corrupt prison guards and perhaps only one or two good souls who may see it all through.

But how do you find a killer in a place full of them?
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Midnight and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Novel
From #1 international bestselling author Ian Rankin, John Rebus spent his life as a cop putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars-but after being convicted of a homicide, he's joining them instead.

A convict is brutally murdered in his locked cell deep in the heart of Scotland's most infamous prison. Sleeping in a cell across the floor lies John Rebus, the equally notorious detective. Stripped of his badge and estranged from his police family, he is now fighting for his own life - protected by an old nemesis but always one wrong move away from the shank. As new allies and old enemies circle, and the days and nights bleed into each other, even this legendary figure struggles to keep his head.

They say old habits die hard, though. The death stirs Rebus's deductive - and manipulative - impulses, setting off a domino-chain of scheming criminals, corrupt prison guards and perhaps only one or two good souls who may see it all through.

But how do you find a killer in a place full of them?
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Midnight and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Novel

Midnight and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Novel

by Ian Rankin

Narrated by James Macpherson

Unabridged — 10 hours, 21 minutes

Midnight and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Novel

Midnight and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Novel

by Ian Rankin

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Overview

From #1 international bestselling author Ian Rankin, John Rebus spent his life as a cop putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars-but after being convicted of a homicide, he's joining them instead.

A convict is brutally murdered in his locked cell deep in the heart of Scotland's most infamous prison. Sleeping in a cell across the floor lies John Rebus, the equally notorious detective. Stripped of his badge and estranged from his police family, he is now fighting for his own life - protected by an old nemesis but always one wrong move away from the shank. As new allies and old enemies circle, and the days and nights bleed into each other, even this legendary figure struggles to keep his head.

They say old habits die hard, though. The death stirs Rebus's deductive - and manipulative - impulses, setting off a domino-chain of scheming criminals, corrupt prison guards and perhaps only one or two good souls who may see it all through.

But how do you find a killer in a place full of them?

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"The special appeal of the entry in this celebrated series is its vividly detailed portrait of the labyrinthine corridors of power in the prison, where everything is available for a price, and its unsettling connections to the corridors of power outside. It's inspiring to see that prison, along with the rotten system it represents, hasn't gotten Rankin's battered hero down."—Kirkus Reviews, Editor's Pick

"An ingenious double locked-room mystery . . . There's maximum suspense as Rebus tries to solve a murder that might be followed by his own. A terrific addition to the Rebus series."—Booklist (starred review)

"Rankin is in top form as he reinvents his flawed hero by having him navigate an equally flawed milieu . . . [Midnight and Blue] must be one of the most original locked-room mysteries ever."—Bruce Tierney, BookPage

"[Rebus] remains Scotland’s gift to the world of crime fiction, and readers won’t ever let Ian Rankin forget it."—Michael McCann, New York Journal of Books

"Ian Rankin has become not just a master of the crime/mystery genre but one of the best in the world at what he does. His long-running and immensely popular series featuring Inspector John Rebus is legendary . . . MIDNIGHT AND BLUE is yet another classic from this iconic author."—Ray Palen, BookReporter

BookPage

Rankin is in top form as he reinvents his flawed hero by having him navigate an equally flawed milieu…[Midnight and Blue] must be one of the most original locked-room mysteries ever.”

Booklist (starred review)

An ingenious double locked-room mystery…There’s maximum suspense as Rebus tries to solve a murder that might be followed by his own. A terrific addition to the Rebus series."

Kirkus Reviews

2024-08-03
Just because he’s in prison doesn’t mean John Rebus can’t keep solving crimes, even if he does need a little help from outside.

Convicted of attempted murder after his attempt to scare Morris Gerald Cafferty—the unsavory client he’d taken on while working as an unofficial private eye inA Heart Full of Headstones (2022)—led to the man’s fatal heart attack, Rebus has been doing time in HMP Edinburgh. Howard Tennent, the prison governor, wants to move him from isolation to the general population in Trinity, where Cafferty’s successor, Darryl Christie, guarantees to protect him (yeah, right). Things work out less well for Jackie Simpson, who’s been jailed for breaking into a nail bar owned by Everett Harrison, an enforcer for Liverpool refugee smuggler Shay Hanlon. Simpson’s found stabbed to death, his cellmate Mark Jamieson knocked out by drugs that mysteriously got into his system. As Rebus asks cautious questions around his cellblock while trying not to annoy anyone (quite a stretch for him), his former colleague DI Siobhan Clarke hunts for missing schoolgirl Jasmine Andrews. The two cases couldn’t be more remote from each other—until the murder of ex-footballer Zak Campbell forges a link between them without giving the slightest indication of who’s guilty. That may be because almost everyone in Police Scotland looks just as guilty as the inmates at Trinity. The special appeal of the entry in this celebrated series is its vividly detailed portrait of the labyrinthine corridors of power in the prison, where everything is available for a price, and its unsettling connections to the corridors of power outside.

It’s inspiring to see that prison, along with the rotten system it represents, hasn’t gotten Rankin’s battered hero down.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940191411576
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Publication date: 10/15/2024
Edition description: Unabridged
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