Ian Rankin

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 …

Doors Open is a 2008 novel by crime writer Ian Rankin. It is his first stand-alone thriller in over 10 years. The story was originally published as a serial novel in The New York Times Magazine.

Nobody likes The Complaints--they're the cops who investigate other cops. It's a department known within the force as "The Dark Side," and it's where Malcolm Fox works. He's a serious man with a father in a nursing home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship, frustrating problems about which he cannot …

In Edinburgh you're never far from a peaceful spot, or from a hellish one either. Now, in the heart of summer, in the midst of a nationalist festival, Inspector John Rebus is on the murder case of a young man left hanging in a spot where his screams would never be heard. To find the victim's identity--and his …

Den hängande trädgården är en roman av Ian Rankin, utgiven i Storbritannien år 1998. Engelska originalets titel är The Hanging Garden. Mark Beal översatte romanen till svenska 2000. Romanen är den nionde i serien om kommissarie Rebus.

Five years ago, a mysterious fire burned Edinburgh's seed Central Hotel to ashes. Long-forgotten and unsolved, the case reappears when a charred body--with a bullet in its head--is found amongst the ruins. Inspector John Rebus knows that his superiors would rather he let sleeping dogs lie. He knows that part of the …

Förlorade själar är en roman av Ian Rankin, utgiven i Storbritannien år 1999. Engelska originalets titel är Dead Souls, vilket anspelar på Nikolaj Gogols roman Döda själar samt på en låt med namnet Dead souls av Joy Division. Mark Beal översatte romanen till svenska 2001. Romanen är den tionde i serien om kommissarie …

Botgörarna är en roman av Ian Rankin, utgiven i Storbritannien år 2001. Engelska originalets titel är Resurrection Men. Hans Lindeberg översatte romanen till svenska 2004. Romanen är den trettonde i serien om kommissarie Rebus.

In the dark days and biting windstorms of an Edinburgh winter, two drop-out kids dive off the towering Forth Road Bridge. A civic office is spattered by a grisly gun-blast. Two suicides and a murder that just don't add up, unless John Rebus can crunch the numbers. Following a trail that snakes through stark alleys and …

Gregor Jack has it all: young, wealthy, and charming, he's a highly respected member of Parliament, with a beautiful wife--and a closet bursting with skeletons. When he's caught in a police raid on an Edinburgh brothel, his house of cards begins to topple. Enter Detective John Rebus: he smells a set-up. When Jack's …