A Cool Head

A Cool Head
First edition
Author	Ian Rankin
Country	Scotland
Language	English
Genre	Crime Fiction
Published	2009 (Orion Press)
Media type	Print Paperback)
Pages	128 pp
ISBN	0-7528-8449-2
OCLC	271772694

A Cool Head is Ian Rankin's entry in Quick Reads 2009.

Plot summary

Gravy works in a graveyard. One day his friend turns up in a car he doesn't recognise. His friend has a bullet in his chest. Gravy is asked to hide the gun and the body. In the back of the car is blood, and a bag full of money. Soon Gravy is caught up in a robbery gone wrong and is pursued by some desperate and mysterious men as well as the police.

Works by Ian Rankin

Novels	The Flood (1986) Knots and Crosses (1987) Watchman (1988) Westwind (1990) Hide and Seek (1991) Tooth and Nail (1992) Strip Jack (1992) The Black Book (1993) Witch Hunt (1993) Mortal Causes (1994) Bleeding Hearts (1994) Let It Bleed (1995) Blood Hunt (1995) Black & Blue (1997) The Hanging Garden (1998) Dead Souls (1999) Set in Darkness (2000) The Falls (2001) Resurrection Men (2002) A Question of Blood (2003) Fleshmarket Close (2004) The Naming of the Dead (2006) Exit Music (2007) Doors Open (2008) A Cool Head (2009, Quick Reads) The Complaints (2009) The Impossible Dead (2011) Standing in Another Man's Grave (2012) Saints of the Shadow Bible (2013) Even Dogs In The Wild (2015)

Short story collections	A Good Hanging and Other Stories (1992) Beggars Banquet (2002) The Beat Goes On (2014)

Non-fiction	Rebus's Scotland: A Personal Journey (2005) Jackie Leven Said (2005, With Jackie Leven)

Graphic novels	Dark Entries (2009)

Plays	Dark Road

Short stories	An Afternoon (1984) Voyeurism (1985) Colony (1986) Trip Trap (1992) Marked For Death (1992) Well Shot (1993) Someone Got to Eddie (1994) A Deep Hole (1994) Adventures in Babysitting (1995) Natural Selection (1996) Auld Lang Syne (1997) Principles of Accounts (1997) Death is Not the End (1998) The Hanged Man (2000) Saint Nicked (2003) Soft Spot (2005) Not Just Another Saturday (2005) Sinner: Justified (2006)

Related articles	Inspector Rebus Quick Reads Jackie Leven University of Edinburgh Gold Dagger

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