Tooth And Nail cover art

Tooth And Nail

The number one bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS

 Preview
Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection.
Listen to your selected audiobooks as long as you're a member.
Auto-renews at $8.99/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Tooth And Nail

By: Ian Rankin
Narrated by: James Macpherson
Try Standard free

Auto-renews at $8.99/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $26.99

Buy Now for $26.99

About this listen

 They call him the Wolfman - because he takes a bite out of his victims and because they found the first victim in the East End's lonely Wolf Street. Scotland Yard are anxious to find the killer and Inspector Rebus is drafted in to help. But his Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn't happy at yet more interference, and Rebus finds himself dealing with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac.

When Rebus is offered a serial killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive female psychologist, it's too good an opportunity to miss. But in finding an ally, he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack.

Read by James Macpherson

(p) 2015 Orion Publishing Group©1992 John Rebus Ltd Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedurals Traditional Detectives Fiction Suspense

Critic Reviews

Ian Rankin is a genius (Lee Child)
The biggest noise in British crime fiction ... the hype and the big sales are backed up with literary talent
No one in Britain writes better crime novels
This is quite simply crime writing of the highest order
One of British crime writing's greatest characters: alongside Holmes, Poirot and Morse
The best and most complex thriller writer in Britain today
All stars
Most relevant
Great twists, good sub plot. I don't remember Reebus being so truculent and grumpy.

Reliable Rankin

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Plenty of knees up. Good story plenty of suspects and no clue until late on

Rebus in the smoke

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I find some of the references misogynistic which dates the series. It’s a shame they don’t rework and slightly modernise. Don’t think they are worth a whole credit each.

Bit dated but still a good listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.