Rebus book 6 · 1994
Mortal Causes
During the Edinburgh Festival a young man’s body is found in Mary King’s Close, the old street buried beneath the city. The murder leads Rebus into the world of loyalist paramilitaries and the sectarian divides of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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Book facts
- Author
- Ian Rankin
- Series
- Rebus, book 6 of 25
- Published
- 1994
- Setting
- Set in Edinburgh
- Characters charted
- 5
- Chart confidence
- Medium
Mortal Causes 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 Mortal Causes
5 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 3
- Gill TemplerRebus’s former lover, later his boss
- Brian HolmesDetective, Rebus’s early partner
- Big Ger CaffertyMorris Gerald Cafferty, Edinburgh crime boss
Also featuring these characters
Other Ian Rankin books that share the most characters with Mortal Causes.
- Black and Blue1997 · Rebus · 4 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- The Hanging Garden1998 · Rebus · 4 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- Dead Souls1999 · Rebus · 4 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- Set in Darkness2000 · Rebus · 4 shared charactersBuy on Amazon