Ian Rankin

In Great Britain, no crime author outsells Ian Rankin. His Inspector Rebus stories are bestselling novels that have also been made into a television series.

Rankin was born in Fife in 1960. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh and according to the profile he provided for his official Website, has been a "grape-picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol researcher, hi-fi journalist, and punk musician." The latter was for a group called "The Dancing Pigs."

In 1987, Rankin published his first Inspector Rebus story. Since then he has been named a Hawthornden Fellow, a Chandler-Fulbright Award, and Crime Writers Association Dagger Awards.

Rankin also wrote novels under the name Jack Harvey.

 

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Inspector Rebus
Others
Knots and Crosses
The Flood
Hide and Seek
Watchman
Tooth and Nail
A Good Hanging and Other Stories
Strip Jack
Westwind
The Black Book
Death is Not the End
Mortal Causes
Witch Hunt
Let it Bleed
Bleeding Hearts
Black and Blue
Blood Hunt
The Hanging Garden
The Naming of the Dead
Dead Souls
Set in Darkness
The Falls
A Question of Blood
Fleshmarket Alley

-- B. Redman