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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

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”

W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”

Roald Dahl, Matilda

Roald Dahl, Matilda

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”

Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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