{"title": "The Black Book", "covers": [499883, 910880, 184938, 6305063, 10444531], "key": "/works/OL483719W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL30266A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Inspector Rebus (Fictitious character)", "Fiction", "Police", "Edinburgh (scotland), fiction", "Rebus, inspector (fictitious character), fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural", "Inspector Rebus (fictional character)", "detective", "mystery", "murder mystery", "crime", "Crime & mystery", "Mystery/Suspense", "English fiction", "English Detective and mystery stories", "Murder", "Cold cases (Criminal investigation)"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's  notebook, Rebus must pierce together a jigsaw no one -- perhaps not even he -- wants completed."}, "links": [{"url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_(Rankin_novel)", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "wikipedia"}, {"url": "http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77489.The_Black_Book", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "goodreads"}], "subject_places": ["Edinburgh", "England", "Edinburgh (Scotland)", "Scotland"], "subject_people": ["Inspector Rebus (fictional character)"], "subject_times": ["Around 2000"], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-08T03:17:08.374071"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-06T19:10:09.427603"}}