Author
Ian Rankin
5 award wins, 10 nominations across 10 books.
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A Question of Blood
Published 2004-04-23 · 440 pages
When a former soldier and recluse murders two 17-year-old students at a posh Edinburgh boarding school, Inspector John Rebus immediately suspects there is more to the case than meets the eye.
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Black and Blue
512 pages
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Exit Music
Published 2007 · 419 pages
It's late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. Rebus discovers that an elite delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, looking to expand its interests.
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Fleshmarket Close
Published 2005 · 448 pages
Investigator John Rebus pursues a case in Edinburgh's red-light district, where refugees seeking asylum are subject to the most ruthless members of the crime world.
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Resurrection Men
Published 2004-01-01 · 474 pages
Sent to a rehabilitation school after a serious mistake, Inspector John Rebus discovers that among his fellow "resurrection men" are a group of classmates plotting a drug heist and joins forces with his protTgT, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke to investigate ties to an art dealer's murder, a crime that could lead to scandal and danger at the highest level of law enforcement. 50,000 first printing.
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Standing in Another Man's Grave
Published 2013
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The Black Book
Published 2000-10-15 · 346 pages
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 pierce together a jigsaw no one -- perhaps not even he -- wants completed.
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The Falls
Published 2001-10-29 · 496 pages
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The Hanging Garden
424 pages
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The Impossible Dead
Published 2011-11-21 · 416 pages
"Asked to take on a simple case of police abuse, Malcolm Fox suddenly finds himself digging up a macabre death from the eighties. Little does he know that the answers he finds in that dark period of Scottish history will lead him to the highest echelons of power"--Jacket.
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