Rebus book 10 · 1999
Dead Souls
A respected detective’s suicide, a convicted paedophile rehoused in the city and a missing young man from Rebus’s home town all land on his desk at once. Meanwhile Cary Oakes, a killer released from an American prison, has come home to Edinburgh.
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Book facts
- Author
- Ian Rankin
- Series
- Rebus, book 10 of 25
- Published
- 1999
- Setting
- Set in Edinburgh
- Characters charted
- 4
- Chart confidence
- Medium
Dead Souls on screen
- Rebus (2000–2007, series, ITV). John Hannah and then Ken Stott play the Edinburgh detective inspector, working cases that reach from the city’s wealthy New Town to its forgotten estates.
Who is in Dead Souls
4 recurring or key characters from Ian Rankin’s chart.
Lead 1
- John RebusEdinburgh detective, later retired and working cold cases
Major 1
- Siobhan ClarkeDetective who rises from Rebus’s junior to lead investigator
Minor and cameo 2
- Gill TemplerRebus’s former lover, later his boss
- Big Ger CaffertyMorris Gerald Cafferty, Edinburgh crime boss
Also featuring these characters
Other Ian Rankin books that share the most characters with Dead Souls.
- Black and Blue1997 · Rebus · 4 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- Let It Bleed1995 · Rebus · 4 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- Resurrection Men2002 · Rebus · 4 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- Mortal Causes1994 · Rebus · 4 shared charactersBuy on Amazon