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Saints of the Shadow Bible: The number one bestselling series that inspired BBC One s REBUS
Ian Rankin
A Rebus Novel, Scotland, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery
Old crimes don't stay buried...
From the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES'Ian Rankin is a genius' Lee ChildOld crimes don't stay buried...
From the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES
'Ian Rankin is a genius' Lee Child
'A first-rate thriller but also a forensic examination of contemporary Scottish society' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. A 30-year-old case is being reopened, and Rebus's team from back then is suspected of foul play. With Malcolm Fox as the investigating officer, are the past and present about to collide in a shocking and murderous fashion? And does Rebus have anything to hide? His old colleagues called themselves 'the Saints', and swore a bond on something called 'the Shadow Bible'. But times have changed and the crimes of the past may not stay hidden much longer, especially with a referendum on Scottish independence just around the corner.
Who are the saints and who are the sinners? And can the one ever become the other?
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Ian Rankin's SAINTS OF THE SHADOW BIBLE was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 8th September 2014
Praise for Saints of the Shadow Bible: The number one bestselling series that inspired BBC One s REBUS
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A brilliant return - for Rebus and Rankin - EVENING STANDARD
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Packed with incident and intrigue, and Rankin's thriller plotting is sublime as ever ... Rebus remains a remarkably lived-in and mesmerising figurehead of the genre - INDEPENDENT
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Along come reminders of why Rankin, and Rebus, take their place at the head of the pack ... you fall in love with the series all over again - THE TIMES
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Rebus is determinedly centre-stage in Rankin's finest novel for years. A first-rate thriller but also a forensic examination of contemporary Scottish society - INDEPENDENT
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He weaves his dual plots into an ever more tangled maze, and then smoothly, oh so satisfactorily, irons them out again. SAINTS OF THE SHADOW BIBLE is a clever, subtle read but most of all, it's a genuine pleasure to see Rebus back in CID - OBSERVER
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Subtle, and ambitious ... it is a fascinating exploration of ideas of loyalty and allegiance in a changing world, as well as a welcome return for a battered but tenacious survivor - GUARDIAN
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Ian Rankin
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first novel The Flood was published in 1986, while his first Rebus novel, Knots & Crosses, was published in 1987. The Rebus series is now translated into twenty-two languages and the books are bestsellers on several continents. Ian has received an OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his wife and two sons.
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