Rebus author Ian Rankin has revealed that he donates around one third of his income to charity. The crime writer’s novels about the gritty Edinburgh detective have sold vast numbers across the ...

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The writer of the Inspector Rebus novels talks about his new book Midnight and Blue, being an author, and books that have given him pleasure Ian Rankin is the bestselling author of the Inspector ...

Richard Rankin (no relation to Ian) is 41. “I have to say, I’d no idea he’d ever have quite such a long life,” the author says. “For me, he was just a useful way to look at Scottish society.

Gritty crime novels are going out of fashion because the public has lost trust in the police, Sir Ian Rankin has said. The celebrated crime writer said that readers now wanted “cosy crime ...

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 ...

Author Ian Rankin in The Oxford Bar, Edinburgh, the pub where he started writing the John Rebus crime series in the 1980s. His lastest Rebus novel, Midnight and Blue, is published this month.

Convicted of attempting to murder a hoodlum nemesis he says he was only trying to scare, John begins Mr. Rankin’s “Midnight and Blue” as an inmate of Trinity Hall in HMP Edinburgh.