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Synopsis

Twelve Inspector Rebus mysteries from the award-winning, No.1 bestselling author.

Edinburgh is a city steeped in history and tradition, a seat of learning, of elegant living, known as the 'Athens of the North'. But that isn't all. The city's flip-side is a city of grudges, blackmail, violence, greed and fear - where past and present clash and old wounds fester. In any year Detective Inspector John Rebus can expect gang warfare, murder, assault and battery at the very least. In this collection he investigates the hanging of a student actor during the Festival, an arson attack on a bird watcher and the witnessing of an apparent miracle...

Twelve terrific stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus: 'an outstanding creation' Daily Telegraph. His home city of Edinburgh is not just the tartan tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban conurbation with the full range of criminals and their victims - blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It is a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accident and long-hidden jealousy.

 

Press Reviews

Britain's finest detective novelist - Scotland on Sunday

[Rebus] is a superbly drawn character; matched by the edgy authenticity of the Scottish locale and dialogue - Sunday Times

Very ambitious and very confident with acute observation of the not so bonny side of Scotland - Daily Telegraph

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About the Author

Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a Ph.D. in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel, Knots & Crosses, was published in 1987 and the Rebus books are now translated into twenty-one languages and bestsellers on several continents.

Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow and is a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award, as well as receiving three Crime Writers' Association Daggers - including the prestigeous Diamond Dagger in 2005. Ian won the Edgar Award for Resurrection Men. He is the recipient of honorary degrees from the universtities of Abertay, St Andrews and Edinburgh.

A contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts. Ian recently received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons.