Rebus book 21 · 2016
Rather Be the Devil
Rebus is dealing with a health scare and filling his retirement with an old case: the murder of a glamorous woman in a city hotel in 1978. At the same time someone has attacked the young gangster Darryl Christie, and Siobhan Clarke and Malcolm Fox are working the fallout.
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Book facts
- Author
- Ian Rankin
- Series
- Rebus, book 21 of 25
- Published
- 2016
- Setting
- Set in Edinburgh
- Characters charted
- 7
- Chart confidence
- Medium
Who is in Rather Be the Devil
7 recurring or key characters from Ian Rankin’s chart.
Lead 1
- John RebusEdinburgh detective, later retired and working cold cases
Major 5
- Siobhan ClarkeDetective who rises from Rebus’s junior to lead investigator
- Deborah QuantPathologist and Rebus’s partner
- Malcolm FoxComplaints officer, later in Major Crimes
- Big Ger CaffertyMorris Gerald Cafferty, Edinburgh crime boss
- Darryl ChristieYoung gangster rising to rival Cafferty
Minor and cameo 1
- BrilloRebus’s dog
Also featuring these characters
Other Ian Rankin books that share the most characters with Rather Be the Devil.
- A Song for the Dark Times2020 · Rebus · 6 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- Saints of the Shadow Bible2013 · Rebus · 5 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- A Heart Full of Headstones2022 · Rebus · 5 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- Standing in Another Man’s Grave2012 · Rebus · 4 shared charactersBuy on Amazon