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The Black Book
A Rebus Novel (Related to this series)
- Author
- Ian Rankin
- Narrator
- James Macpherson
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 24 March 2011
- Run Time
- 9 hours 47 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's notebook, Rebus must piece together the most complex and confusing of jigsaws.
But not everyone wants the puzzle solved - perhaps not even Rebus himself...
Read by James Macpherson
(p) 2011 Orion Publishing Group
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Details
- Author
- Ian Rankin
- Narrator
- James Macpherson
- Duration
- 9 hours 47 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 March 2011
- ISBN
- 9781409134459
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Crime and / or mystery fiction
Synopsis
When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder.Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's notebook, Rebus must piece together the most complex and confusing of jigsaws.But not everyone wants the puzzle solved - perhaps not even Rebus himself...Read by James Macpherson(p) 2011 Orion Publishing Group
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