Ian Rankin is the bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus mysteries and other books. A multiple award winner, the novelist, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, has been knighted and made an officer of ...

When Rebus author Ian Rankin first met William McIlvanney he told him he was working on his first crime book which was going to be "like Laidlaw, but set in Edinburgh" Crime writer Ian Rankin has ...

The author of the bestselling Rebus novels says the death of his mother when he was just 19 may have led him to his most famous character. In a wide-ranging interview with BBC Scotland News, Sir ...

Muriel Spark makes notes on one of her novels in 1960 Before he became the best-selling author of the Inspector Rebus novels, Ian Rankin spent three years researching a PhD on one of the Scotland ...

Ian Rankin lives in Edinburgh, and his award-winning 'Inspector Rebus' novels have topped the Sunday Times bestseller lists. The books have been dramatised for TV, and are translated into 22 ...

Ian Rankin is the best-selling author of the Inspector Rebus mysteries and other books. A multiple-award winner, the Edinburgh-based novelist has received an OBE and knighthood for his service to ...

The new TV reboot of the famous Ian Rankin novels reimagines Rebus as a ... but gaining the approval of the bestselling writer of the book series was another hurdle for the Glaswegian.

starring Richard Rankin, to our audiences in Scotland and across the UK." The first Rebus book, Knots & Crosses, was published in 1987 and Sir Ian's detective novels have been translated into 22 ...