Ian Rankin

The brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin: one of the must-read books of the year. John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars. Now, he's going to join them... In this tense, gripping game of cat and mouse, 'The King of Crime' (Express) returns to his...

The third Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of Midnight and Blue 'No one writes better crime novels' EVENING STANDARD LONDON IS CALLING. WILL REBUS FIND THE ANSWER? Detective Inspector John Rebus is hand-picked to help catch a serial killer down in London. The Edinburgh cop doesn't like the big city - and it doesn't seem that his...

The ninth Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES. 'Masterly' SUNDAY TIMES 'Ian Rankin is a genius' Lee Child DI John Rebus is hard at work on multiple cases. Not only is he on the trail of a WWII war criminal - he's also become entangled in a dangerous battle between two...

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict—until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a...

Daggers Drawn is an edgy, twisted, and disturbing anthology, presenting the first Crime Writers’ Association Daggers Award retrospective. It features 19 visceral and thrilling stories from bestselling authors such as Ian Rankin, Jeffery Deaver, John Connolly, Denise Mina, John Harvey, and more. Nineteen CWA Dagger Award-winning short stories come together in this collection, showcasing the best of the best in...

Fantastic - like witnessing Scottish noir's Big Bang creation in the company of its greatest living exponent... like Maradona and Messi playing in the same team. - LEE CHILD Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he's dead, and it was no accident. Besides a distraught family and a heap of powerful...

Some cases never leave you. For John Rebus, forty years may have passed, but the death of beautiful, promiscuous Maria Turquand still preys on his mind. Murdered in her hotel room on the night a famous rock star and his entourage were staying there, Maria's killer has never been found. Meanwhile, the dark heart of Edinburgh remains up for grabs....

Retirement doesn't suit John Rebus. He wasn't made for hobbies, holidays or home improvements. Being a cop is in his blood. So when DI Siobhan Clarke asks for his help on a case, Rebus doesn't need long to consider his options. Clarke's been investigating the death of a senior lawyer whose body was found along with a threatening note. On...

Perfect for Rankin fans: Finished the novels and just want more? Dive inside Edinburgh as only John Rebus knows it. Packed with detail: Every single Rebus novel to date is referenced: can you spot them all? Poster and playlist: Comes with a poster detailing all the references and a playlist tailor-made by Ian Rankin himself of John Rebus's favourite songs...

Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their full title, but known colloquially as 'the Dark Side', or simply The Complaints. Malcolm Fox works for The Complaints. He's just had a result and should be feeling good about himself. But he's middle-aged, sour, and unwell. He also has...

Bombs are exploding in the streets of London, but life seems to have planted more subtle booby-traps for Miles Flint. Miles is a spy. His job is to watch and to listen, then to report back to his superiors, nothing more. The job, affording glimpses into the most private lives of his victims, appeals to Miles. He doesn't lust after...

Interpol have tried and failed to find the terrorist, Witch. Now the combined forces of Scotland Yard and MI5 must try the impossible to prevent a major international incident. Dominic Elder carries her autograph wherever he goes. Witch is his passion, his obsession. And being retired is no bar to his willingness to restart the hunt. MI5 know that the...

Special edition of the award-winning Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A Song for the Dark Times - includes exclusive extra material. 'Britain's best crime novelist' - Daily Express 'Ian Rankin is a genius' - Lee Child In the 1960s, the infamous Bible John terrorised Scotland when he murdered three women, taking three souvenirs. Thirty years later, a...

A series of seemingly random disappearances - stretching back to the millennium. A mother determined to find the truth. A retired cop desperate to get his old life back... It's been some time since Rebus was forced to retire, and he now works as a civilian in a cold-case unit. So when a long-dead case bursts back to life, he...

The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin brings Malcolm Fox and his team back into action, tasked with investigating whether fellow officers covered up misconduct by Detective Paul Carter. Although Carter has been found guilty, what seems like a straightforward job soon spirals into complexity with the occurrence of a brutal murder and the discovery of a weapon that should not...

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom. Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toy...

A murder has been committed - but as the victim was a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is too concerned about the crime. That is, until Detective Inspector John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke uncover evidence that a serial killer is on the loose...When Rebus also starts looking into the apparent suicide of an MP, he is abruptly...

Fantastic - Lee Child Absolutely brilliant - Mick Herron If the truth's in the shadows, get out of the light . . . Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he's dead, and it was no accident. He's left behind his share of enemies, but who dealt the fatal blow? DC Jack...

The brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin: one of the must-read books of the year. ‘Rebus in jail and better than ever ... Surprising, gripping and witty. Rankin has taken the police procedural and transformed it into an epic character study of a man and his city ... Nobody does it better.’ The...

In The Heights by #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Sir Ian Rankin, murder comes to London's most exclusive high-rise - and every resident is a suspect... MURDER COMES TO LONDON'S MOST LUXURIOUS HIGH-RISE: AND EVERY RESIDENT IS A SUSPECT. The Heights: a gleaming, high-end high-rise looming over Hyde Park. Newly built from steel and smoked glass, it is a billionaire's playground offering sumptuous suites...

Daggers Drawn: Nineteen CWA Dagger award-winning short stories from the best of the best in crime fiction. Maxim Jakubowski has edited all the great names in crime fiction, and stories from his anthologies have won the CWA Dagger six times. Now, he has collected 19 Dagger award-winning stories in one volume, making it the first retrospective deep dive into the...

Gregor Jack, MP, well-liked, young, and married to the fiery Elizabeth - to the outside world a very public success story. But Jack's carefully nurtured career plans take a tumble after a 'mistake' during a police raid on a notorious Edinburgh brothel. Then Elizabeth disappears, a couple of bodies float into view where they shouldn't, and a lunatic speaks from...

From the No.1 bestselling author of A Song for the Dark Times The stage debut for the legendary detective John Rebus in this brand new, original story by Ian Rankin, written alongside the award-winning playwright Rona Munro. John Rebus is not as young as he was, but his detective instincts have never left him. After the daughter of a murder...

A delicious, and somewhat drunken, dinner party segues into a murder mystery game created by the hostess. However, the parlour game may hold clues about the dark truths hiding just under the surface of this genteel gathering... As suspects, clues and red herrings are sifted, it seems one of the guests has an unfair advantage: John Rebus, an ex-detective who...

Discover the lost classic from iconic number one bestselling author of A Song for the Dark Times The bigger the lie, the harder the truth is to believe... In Europe, the Americans are pulling out their troops in a tide of isolationism. Britain, torn between loyalties to America and the continent, is caught betwixt and between. In America, a space...

When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's notebook, Rebus must piece together the most complex and confusing of jigsaws. But not everyone wants...

There is no detective like DI Rebus—brilliant, irascible, and endlessly frustrating both to his friends and his long-suffering bosses. For over two decades, he has walked through the dark places of Edinburgh. Now Rebus's life is revealed through this complete collection of stories, from his early days as a young DC in Dead and Buried right up to the dramatic,...

Edinburgh is about to become the home of the first Scottish parliament in 300 years. As political passions run high, DI John Rebus is charged with liaison, thanks to the new parliament being resident in Queensbury House, bang in the middle of his patch. But Queensbury House has its own, dark past. Legend has it that a young man was...

Old crimes don't stay buried... From the No.1 bestselling author of A Song for the Dark Times 'Ian Rankin is a genius' – Lee Child 'A first-rate thriller but also a forensic examination of contemporary Scottish society' – Independent on Sunday Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. A 30-year-old case...

It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing... A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean streets, and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving with tourists is almost unthinkable. When the victim turns out...

Rebus is one of fiction's greatest creations MARIAN KEYES In the depths of Edinburgh winter, the bodies are piling up for Detective John Rebus – two suicides, a murder, and the mysterious death of an inmate in one of Scotland's largest prisons. When his investigation uncovers a web of conspiracy among the city's political elite, it's clear that everything Rebus...

THE KING OF CRIME FICTION SUNDAY EXPRESS Someone buried the truth. Now it's time to dig up the lies... A GRIPPING REBUS THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC #1 BESTSELLER * Private investigator Stuart Bloom was missing, presumed dead. Until now. His body is discovered in an abandoned car - in an area that had already been searched... Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke...

Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul. He is looking for something to liven up the days and settles on a plot to rip-off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital - the National Gallery of Scotland. So, together with two close friends...

Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children. When the social workers claim he is there for legitimate educational reasons, Rebus is faced with a dilemma—should he be outed to protect local kids or given a chance to start anew? As the locals begin a hate campaign, Rebus gets a...

Resurrection Men introduces us to a new phase in Detective Inspector Rebus's career—he's off the case, literally. A few days into the murder inquiry of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus loses his temper with a colleague and is subsequently sent to the Scottish Police College for 'retraining'. In other words, he's in the Last Chance Saloon. While at the college,...

An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme. Fleshmarket Close draws Rebus into the case, but he has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his superiors want him to retire. But Rebus is stubborn. As he investigates, he must visit an asylum seekers' detention centre, deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and...

Sometimes murder is the easy way out... A brilliant Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A Song for the Dark Times. 'Britain's No.1 crime writer' Daily Mirror 'Ian Rankin is a genius' Lee Child A mugging gone wrong ... or murder? A dissident Russian poet is found dead - at the same time a delegation of Russian businessmen...

A CRIME TOO CLOSE TO HOME . . . A superb, highly suspenseful crime thriller from the No.1 bestselling author of A Song for the Dark Times. 'You'll love every second of it' — MIRROR 'Excellent' — SUNDAY TIMES At a private school, two teenagers are killed by an ex-Army loner who then turned the gun on himself. Finding the...

From the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin comes one of the must-read books of the year: A Song for the Dark Times 'Genius ... Only great novels capture the spirit of the age. This is one of them.' THE TIMES 'He's gone...' When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news....

Edinburgh, the world's first UNESCO City of Literature, is steeped in literary history. It is the birthplace of a beloved cast of fictional characters from Sherlock Holmes to Harry Potter. It is home to the Writer's Museum, where quotes from past writers pave the steps leading up to it. A city whose beauty is matched only by the intrigue of...

‘And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you...’ ‘That sort of thing’ is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking and drinking too much, his own young...

The brand new Rebus thriller from the iconic number one bestseller. One of the must-read novels of the year. 'I loved it - Rebus is one of fiction's greatest creations' - Marian Keyes John Rebus stands accused: the once legendary detective is on trial, facing the rest of his life behind bars. How does a hero turn villain? Or have...