It’s darker than the first Inspector Rebus novel, Knots & Crosses, and more complicated, but richer for all that. So he too gets involved in the hunt for Johnny Bible, and as a matter of pride, wants to find him before the police do.ĭiscussion: Black and Blue won The Gold Dagger Award, given annually by the Crime Writers’ Association for best crime novel of the year. Nor does he like the renewed attention to his own case, having been successfully in hiding now for some time. But so does Bible John! In a nice bit of black humor, Bible John doesn’t appreciate the inferior knock-off tarnishing his reputation. Inspector Rebus wants desperately to find him. Now there is an imitator, called Johnny Bible. In the 1960’s, there was a serial killer in Scotland known as Bible John. Black and Blue is the eighth of the Inspector Rebus mystery/suspense series by Ian Rankin, and is considered to be a quintessential example of the “Tartan Noir” genre.
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