Black and Blue (novel)

Black and Blue (novel)

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name = Black and Blue
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author = Ian Rankin
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country = Scotland
language = English
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genre = Detective novel
publisher = Orion Press
release_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 crime 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. [Plain, Gill: Ian Rankin's "Black and Blue": A Reader's Guide, Continuum Contemporaries, 2002]

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. [See [http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/ianrankin.html here] and [http://www.bookslut.com/features/2005_04_005009.php here] for mention of them]

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