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Ian Rankin at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The Inspector Rebus books are a series of detective novels by the Scottish author Sir Ian Rankin. The novels, centred on Detective Inspector John Rebus, are mostly based in and around Edinburgh. They are considered an important contribution to 'Tartan Noir'.
Sir Ian James Rankin OBE DL FRSE FRSL FRIAS [2] (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer and philanthropist, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels. Early life [ edit ]
In a series of books and short stories by Ian Rankin, beginning with Knots and Crosses published in 1987 and ending with Exit Music in 2007, John Rebus is a detective in the Lothian and Borders Police force, stationed in Edinburgh. After the first book, he is promoted from Detective Sergeant to Detective Inspector.
This is a list of characters from the Inspector Rebus series of detective novels by the Scottish writer Ian Rankin. They are all fictional characters that have appeared in more than one novel in the series. A number of the characters appeared in the television adaptations made for ITV.
The novel begins with a short, two-chapter Book 1 in which Rebus says good-bye to Sammy on Guy Fawkes night and, a few hours later, finds her unconscious in the hospital after a hit-and-run. Book 2 occupies chapters 3-11 and provides a flashback filling in Rebus's various cases leading up to Guy Fawkes night, including persuading Sammy to ...
Jim Stevens reappears in Rankin's third book, Watchman, following his move to London at the end of Knots; he appears again in the tenth novel, Dead Souls, where he is murdered. An alternative version of Gordon Reeve, Rebus' partner in SAS training, was the protagonist of Blood Hunt , the last book Rankin wrote under his "Jack Harvey" alias: he ...
STATE OF THE ARTS: Whether it’s Poirot’s vanity or Nero Wolfe’s agoraphobia, detectives have always had their vices, writes Nick Hilton. But as Inspector Rebus returns to screens for the ...
The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Short Stories is an anthology of all the Inspector Rebus short stories (30) by Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin, plus the novella Death Is Not the End; though the Rebus short story "Well Shot" published in 2nd Culprit (1993) is not included. It is Rankin's third collection of short stories.