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Black And Blue

The number one bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS

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Black And Blue

By: Ian Rankin
Narrated by: James Macpherson
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Rebus is juggling four cases trying to nail one killer - who might just lead back to the infamous Bible John. And he's doing it under the scrutiny of an internal inquiry led by a man he has just accused of taking backhanders from Glasgow's Mr Big.

As if this wasn't enough, there are TV cameras at his back investigating a miscarriage of justice, making Rebus a criminal in the eyes of a million or more viewers.

Just one mistake is likely to mean an unpleasant and not particularly speedy death or, worse still, losing his job.

Read by James Macpherson

(p) 2000 Orion Publishing Group©1997 John Rebus Ltd Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Traditional Detectives Crime Suspense
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With BLACK AND BLUE Ian Rankin joins the elite of British crime writing
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I was born and grew up in Aberdeen and I enjoyed Stuart Macbride partly because it's so easy to imagine the characters stomping around the granite city. Consequently the abridged-ness, and therefore, lack of descriptions of the streets etc. really grated on me.

So I borrowed my Dad's paperback afterwards. Can they not release the whole book? So the review stars reflect this with the high review for the story and the narrator but a low review for cutting out most of the book!

Abridged. Extremely Abridged.

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