Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Tooth and Nail

By: Ian Rankin
Narrated by: James Macpherson
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

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.

©2011 Ian Rankin (P)2011 Orion Publishing Group Limited
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

Secret Sanction cover art
A Litter of Bones: A Scottish Crime Thriller cover art
Rebus: Strip Jack - Saturday Drama, Complete (Dramatised) cover art
A Long Time Dead cover art
The Bonnie Dead cover art
The Turning of Our Bones cover art
Silent Tide cover art
The Black Echo: Harry Bosch Series, Book 1 cover art
The Tattoo Thief cover art
Ben Rehder Mysteries Box Set: Buck Fever & Gone The Next cover art
The Mysterious Affair at Styles cover art
Are You Watching Me? cover art
Fragile Cord cover art
The Murder Wall cover art
Where She Lies: A Gripping Irish Detective Thriller with a Stunning Twist cover art
The Anderson Tapes cover art

What listeners say about Tooth and Nail

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    593
  • 4 Stars
    215
  • 3 Stars
    52
  • 2 Stars
    8
  • 1 Stars
    3
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    591
  • 4 Stars
    133
  • 3 Stars
    28
  • 2 Stars
    5
  • 1 Stars
    1
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    502
  • 4 Stars
    182
  • 3 Stars
    59
  • 2 Stars
    10
  • 1 Stars
    1

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Great story all the way through

Kept me interested all the way through. Great story with twists and turns.
Looking forward to the next one

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Accents

Narrator makes a brilliant Rebus but does fall down when tackling accents other than Scottish, which initially distracted from the story.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Great dark detective

Rebus in London. James Macpherson's delivery is pitch perfect in this dark tale of murder. Having worked in London, most of the locations are familiar and made this particularly enjoyable. The dark depths of the psycology of not only the killer but the full cast of characters is particularly convincing, and Rankin's commans of this and police procedure makes this a gritty and realistic read.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Macarb, scary exciting

Nothing else to say but brilliant. Well read as usual. Kept me awake wanting to know how it ended

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

So good

I read this book years ago and I had forgotten how good Ian Rankin and his creation Rebus is. Not much Edinburgh in this book as the investigation is in London where Rebus has been sent to help the Met in a serial killer investigation. The narrator is perfect and the tension is high. Of course written early 1990s it is of its time with little of the technology we have now but that is not a bad thing as the author can be freer with the plot .

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Kept me guessing to the end

I really enjoyed this, and the story took a left turn from where I thought this was going to go

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Gripping

Gripping story and excellently read. Very creepy voices which made it all the more exciting.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

A satisfying read

Characters believable and fully present. An engaging plot. I want to know what happens next with Rebus.....always a good sign and so I will be getting the next book

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant read!

Thoroughly enjoyable book.
First class narrator who made each character come alive.
I can’t wait to listen to the next in the series.
Strongly recommended.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

One of the best in the series

What made the experience of listening to Tooth and Nail the most enjoyable?

The narrator seemed to find just the right voices for this one - sometimes James Macpherson's accents can be a bit wayward, but this time he was spot on.

What did you like best about this story?

Good blend of view points and plenty of red herrings. Some neat one liners (referring to a handful of painkillers as a 'fist full of dullers', 'more holes than a blind dressmaker's thumb') and an exciting chase at the end.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!