Black And Blue (A Rebus Novel)
Black and Blue is a 1997 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.
Work Information
The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.
Black and Blue layers clues and shifting emotions so the reader follows not only the truth of the case but also the relationships around it. As the story moves forward, the tension outside the investigation comes into view.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Orion mass market paperback
- Published
- 2006-06-28
- Pages
- 512 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 11 x 3.2 x 17.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780752864471
- ISBN-10
- 0752864475
- Price
- 10899 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery
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.
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 Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into thirty-six languages and are bestsellers worldwide.Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. In 2004, Ian won America's celebrated Edgar Award for Resurrection Men. He has also been shortlisted for the Anthony Award in the USA, won Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Hull and the Open University.A contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts. Rankin is a number one bestseller in the UK and has received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons. Visit his website www.ianrankin.net or follow him on Twitter @Beathhigh
Reviews
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エジンバラの憂鬱
１ページ毎にその暗い雰囲気が伝わってくる。明るさは全く感じられないのに、引きつけられる。これまでに読んだ色々な作家の作品とは、色彩がかなり違っていて、この暗さが、読んでいるうちに自分の周りを包むようです。 リーバスという一人の男の彼自身に対する恐怖なのか、エジンバラの街が醸成する空気なのか、読むことを途中でやめられませんでした。 サスペンスやミステリーの範疇をちょっと越えているような、そんな余韻を残す読後感です。
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リーバス警部にはローリングストーンズを
表題はローリングストーンズのアルバムタイトルから。このアルバムを聞きながら男の友情に浸りましょう。前作ではアル中の一歩手前（もしくはアル中）になってしまったリーバス警部。難事件に挑むと同時に自己改革に乗り出しました。イギリスの警部はみんな人間くさくて，弱点をかかえ，必死に生きています。ＤＶＤでは予算の関係でロケをケチったとのこと。小説では予算をケチる必要はありません。エジンバラのみなならずグラスゴー，アバディーンとスコットランドの雰囲気を満喫しましょう。
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Black and Blue
Wie alle Rebus Krimis ein Genuß. Rebus ist ein sehr skuriller Ermittler, sehr speziell, Kontrovers aber mit allen seinen Schwächen einen äußerst sympatischen Mensch.
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Rebus the hard way...
I read this many years ago but couldn't remember full story so decided to give it another go. Classic Rebus early days, he manages to do everything wrong and get himself beaten black and blue but still manges to get some bad guys put away while being investigated himself from an earleir arrest, he solves that too. Now I need a rest...
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Excellent writer
Quality plots, lots of twists
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To be savored...page by page...
He is one of the greatest living crime novelists...most of his books (especially this one) observe and examine areas where the borders of "legality" and "illegality" are blurred as are notions of "duty"...he also brings to life the Scottish towns and countryside which by now have become essential accompaniments to his story telling....
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Très bon
Très bon
Related Literary Awards
- CWA KAA Gold Dagger Edition 43 (1997) ・Winner