Ian Rankin's brilliant new hero, Malcolm Fox, who made his celebrated debut in "The Complaints, " is investigating a police department where the corruption is deep and deadly.
The Complaints: that's the Internal Affairs department that seeks out dirty and compromised cops, the ones who've made d[...]

It's twenty-five years since John Rebus appeared on the scene, and five years since he retired. But 2012 sees his return in STANDING IN ANOTHER MAN'S GRAVE. Not only is Rebus as stubborn and anarchic as ever, but he finds himself in trouble with Rankin's latest creation, Malcolm Fox of Edinburgh's i[...]

There is no detective like DI Rebus. Brilliant, irascible and endlessly frustrating to both his friends and his long-suffering bosses, he has made the dark places of Edinburgh his comfort and his home for over two decades. From his beginnings as a young Detective Constable in 'Dead and Buried', righ[...]

John Rebus returns to investigate the disappearances of three women from the same road over ten years. For the last decade, Nina Hazlitt has been ready to hear the worst about her daughter's disappearance. But with no sightings, no body, and no suspect, the police investigation ground to a halt long[...]

A murdered oil rig worker. A copycat serial killer dubbed Johnny Bible. And a reopened investigation that doesn t bode well for Detective John Rebus or his mentor, Inspector Lawson Geddes. Rebus s Scotland, along with his malt-soaked psyche, is riddled with trouble. Now he s got to tie up the loose [...]

A murdered oil rig worker. A copycat serial killer dubbed Johnny Bible. And a reopened investigation that doesn t bode well for Detective John Rebus or his mentor, Inspector Lawson Geddes. Rebus s Scotland, along with his malt-soaked psyche, is riddled with trouble. Now he s got to tie up the loose [...]

A murdered oil rig worker. A copycat serial killer dubbed Johnny Bible. And a reopened investigation that doesn t bode well for Detective John Rebus or his mentor, Inspector Lawson Geddes. Rebus s Scotland, along with his malt-soaked psyche, is riddled with trouble. Now he s got to tie up the loose [...]

Detective John Rebus s city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders and he s tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. As the ghoulish killings mount and the tabloid headlines scream, Rebus cannot stop the feverish shrieks from within his own mind. Because he isn t just one cop try[...]

Detective John Rebus first appeared in Ian Rankin's 1987 bestseller Knots and Crosses and has since gone on to appear in 17 books and numerous short stories. For over 20 years these critically-acclaimed, notoriously gritty novels have sold in their millions, thrilled readers the world over and have [...]

All the short stories in "Crimespotting" are brand new and specially commissioned. The brief was deceptively simple - each story must be set in Edinburgh and feature a crime. The results range from hard-boiled police procedural to historical whodunit and from the wildly comic to the spookily superna[...]