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Ian Rankin

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Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin - has the following books at our site 

A Question of Blood: An Inspector Rebus Novel
Fleshmarket Alley
Exit Music
Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus)
Tooth and Nail (Detective John Rebus Novels)
Let It Bleed: A John Rebus Mystery (Detective John Rebus Novels)
Mortal Causes
Hide and Seek
Strip Jack
The Hanging Garden: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Inspector Rebus Series/Ian Rankin)
Black and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Mystery (Black & Blue)
Dead Souls: An Inspector Rebus Novel (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)
The Black Book
Set in Darkness: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Inspector Rebus Mysteries)
The Falls: An Inspector Rebus Novel
Resurrection Men: An Inspector Rebus Novel
Rather Be The Devil
The Naming of the Dead
Saints of the Shadow Bible
Even Dogs in the Wild
Standing in Another Man's Grave
In A House of Lies

I think he's (Rebus) on the side of the angels and he's a complex character, he's a bit of a maverick, he tries to do the right thing but sometimes goes about it the wrong way. I think we like that, we like the fact that he is trying to get the right result, he's trying to put bad people behind bars.

At the same time, he's quite a mixed up character and he ages in real time, so if you have lived with the series as a reader, you will have seen an age and he now aches in places where he used to play as a famous singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen once put it. So you know, he's like us. And he's lived in one of the most extraordinary cities in the world, Edinburgh.

And some people think they know Edinburgh, they might have seen it on screen, they might have visited it as a tourist and I say, well actually, there's a bit more to the city and that. And here's the guy that will show you around.

Ian Rankin Website

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading brings us unknown friends”

Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac

“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

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