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 ...

Novelist Sir Ian Rankin has been announced as the first ever guest programmer for an “epic” crime writing festival. Sir Ian ...

The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre You can always depend on Chris Brookmyre to surprise you – no two books of his are the same. The Cracked Mirror starts off looking like a homage to Agatha ...

Rebus author Sir Ian Rankin has been announced as a guest programmer for the Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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's famous world-weary detective John Rebus ... then I could stop and be happy. But no, every book is yet another slight failing on the road to writing the ideal novel," he said.

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 ...