![]() (The spree of recent killings bears a striking similarity to the factual "Bible John" case of the late 1960s.) Rebus resolves an ambiguous incident with his colleague Brian Holmes, regarding the alleged assault on the criminal Mental Minto. Transferred to Craigmillar, Rebus is investigating the Johnny Bible case. Set in Scotland around the mid-1990s, Black & Blue focuses on Detective Inspector Rebus. Rebus travels between Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen and then on to Shetland and the North Sea. TV journalists are meanwhile investigating Rebus over a miscarriage of justice. 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". It is considered a landmark entry in the Tartan Noir genre.ĭetective Inspector John Rebus is working on four cases at once trying to catch a killer he suspects of being the infamous Bible John. ![]() ![]() The eighth of the Inspector Rebus novels, it was the first to be adapted in the Rebus television series starring John Hannah, airing in 2000. Black & Blue is a 1997 crime novel by Ian Rankin. ![]()
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