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Westwind
THE CLASSIC LOST THRILLER, AVAILABLE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ALMOST THIRTY YEARS It always starts with a small lie. That’s how you stop noticing the bigger ones. After his friend suspects something strange going on at the launch facility where they both work – and then goes missing – Martin Hepton doesn’t believe…
First Published: 2019Available As:Full Details- Hardback
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In a House of Lies
The No.1 bestselling new John Rebus novel, in paperback 30 May 2019 In a house of lies, who can ever know the truth? IN A HOUSE OF LIES… Everyone has something to hide A missing private investigator is found, locked in a car hidden deep in the woods. Worse still – both for his family…
First Published: 2018Full Details
Long Shadows: A Play
The stage debut for the legendary detective John Rebus in this brand new, original story by Ian Rankin, written alongside the award-winning playwright Rona Munro. Detective Inspector John Rebus is retired but the shadows of his former life still follow him through the streets of Edinburgh. Whisky helped but now he’s denying himself that pleasure.…
First Published: 2018Available As:Full Details- Hardback
Rather be the Devil
Some cases never leave you. For John Rebus, forty years may have passed, but the death of beautiful, promiscuous Maria Turquand still preys on his mind. Murdered in her hotel room on the night a famous rock star and his entourage were staying there, Maria’s killer has never been found. Meanwhile, the dark heart of…
First Published: 2017Available As:Full Details- Hardback
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Black and Blue (special edition)
Special edition of the award-winning Rebus novel – includes exclusive extra material.
Available from: 25 August 2016Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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Even Dogs in the Wild
Hands in his pockets, Rebus turned to face Cafferty. They were old men now, similar builds, similar backgrounds. Sat together in a pub, the casual onlooker might mistake them for pals who’d known one another since school. But their history told a different story. Retirement doesn’t suit John Rebus. He wasn’t made for hobbies, holidays…
First published: 2015Available As:Full Details- Hardback
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Dark Road: A Play
First performed at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, the first stage play from Ian Rankin It’s been 25 years since Alfred Chalmers was convicted of the gruesome murder of four young women in Edinburgh. Isobel McArthur, Scotland’s first Chief Constable, was the woman responsible for putting him behind bars, but the case has haunted her ever…
First Published: 2014Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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The Beat Goes On
There is no detective like DI Rebus – brilliant, irascible and endlessly frustrating both to his friends and his long-suffering bosses. For over two decades he has walked through the dark places of Edinburgh . . . Now Rebus’s life is revealed through this complete collection of stories, from his early days as a young…
First Published: 2014Available As:Full Details- Hardback
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Saints of the Shadow Bible
Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. A 30-year-old case is being reopened, and Rebus’s team from back then is suspected of foul play. With Malcolm Fox as the investigating officer, are the past and present about to collide in a shocking and murderous fashion? And…
First Published: 2013Available As:Full Details- Trade Paperback
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Standing in Another Man’s Grave
It’s been some time since Rebus was forced to retire, and he now works as a civilian in a cold-case unit. So when a long-dead case bursts back to life, he can’t resist the opportunity to get his feet under the CID desk once more. But Rebus is as stubborn and anarchic as ever, and…
First Published: 2012Available As:Full Details- Trade Paperback
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The Impossible Dead
Malcolm Fox and his team are back, investigating whether fellow cops covered up for Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct, but what should be a simple job is soon complicated by a brutal murder and a weapon that should not even exist. A trail of revelations leads Fox back to 1985,…
First Published: 2011Available As:Full Details- Trade Paperback
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A Cool Head
Written specially for World Book Day Quick Reads. “My dad used to say to me, ‘Try to keep a cool head and a warm heart’. At least I think it was my dad. I don’t really remember him.” Gravy worked in the graveyard – hence the name. He was having a normal day until his…
First Published: 2009Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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Dark Entries
Occult detective John Constantine has seen his share of strange things in his career, but nothing could prepare him for the horrors of . . . reality television. Haunted Mansion is currently the hottest show on TV, but when the macabre house actually starts attacking the contestants, Constantine is hired to be the ultimate mole.…
First Published: 2009Available As:Full Details- Paperback
The Complaints
Nobody likes The Complaints – they’re the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their full title, but known colloquially as ‘the Dark Side’, or simply ‘The Complaints’. Malcolm Fox works for The Complaints. He’s just had a result, and should be feeling good about himself. But he’s middle-aged, sour…
First Published: 2009Available As:Full Details- Trade Paperback
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Doors Open
Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul. He is looking for something to liven up the days and settles on a plot to rip off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital – the National Gallery of Scotland.…
First Published: 2008Available As:Full Details- Hardback
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Exit Music
It’s late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A dissident Russian poet has been found dead in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. By apparent coincidence, a delegation of Russian businessmen is…
First Published: 2007Available As:Full Details- Trade Paperback
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The Naming of the Dead
A murder has been committed – but as the victim was a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is too concerned about the crime. That is, until Detective Inspector John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke uncover evidence that a serial killer is on the loose… When Rebus also starts looking into the apparent suicide…
First Published: 2006Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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Rebus’s Scotland
Ian Rankin’s guide to the places in Scotland that have provided inspiration for his bestselling Inspector Rebus novels. Ian uncovers the Scotland that the tourist never sees, highlighting the places that inspired the settings for the Inspector Rebus novels. Rankin also reveals the story of Rebus and how he came into being, who he is,…
First Published: 2005Available As:Full Details- Paperback
Fleshmarket Close
An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme. Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters want him to retire. But Rebus is stubborn. As he investigates, he must visit an asylum seekers’ detention centre, deal with the sleazy…
First Published: 2004Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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A Question of Blood
Two 17-year-olds are killed by an ex-Army loner who has gone off the rails. The mystery takes Rebus into the heart of a shattered community. Ex-Army himself, Rebus becomes fascinated by the killer, and finds he is not alone. Army investigators are on the scene, and won’t be shaken off. The killer had friends and…
First Published: 2003Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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Beggars Banquet
A collection of Ian’s short stories, ranging from the macabre (‘The Hanged Man’) to the unfortunate (‘The Only True Comedian’) right back to the sinister (‘Someone Got To Eddie’). This title is out of print. You can find a full collection of all Ian Rankin’s short stories in The Beat Goes On.
First Published: 2002Available As:Full Details- Paperback
Resurrection Men
Rebus is off the case – literally. A few days into the murder inquiry of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus blows up at a colleague. He is sent to the Scottish Police College for ‘retraining’ – in other words, he’s in the Last Chance Saloon. Rebus is assigned to an old, unsolved case, but there…
First Published: 2002Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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The Falls
A student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She’s not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There’s almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there’s more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom. Two leads emerge: a carved…
First Published: 2001Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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Set in Darkness
Edinburgh is about to become the home of the first Scottish parliament in 300 years. As political passions run high, DI John Rebus is charged with liaison, thanks to the new parliament being resident in Queensbury House, bang in the middle of his patch. But Queensbury House has its own dark past. Legend has it…
First Published: 2000Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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The Jack Harvey Novels
From bestselling Ian Rankin, winner of the 1997 CWA Gold Dagger for fiction for Black & Blue the three Jack Harvey novels, gathered together in one omnibus volume.
First Published: 2000Available As:Full Details- Trade Paperback
Dead Souls
Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children. When the social workers claim he is there for legitimate educational reasons, Rebus is faced with a dilemma – should he be outed to protect local kids or given a chance to start anew? As the locals…
First Published: 1999Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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The Hanging Garden
DI Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork but an escalating dispute between the upstart Tommy Telford and Big Ger Cafferty’s gang gives Rebus an escape clause. Telford is known to have close links with a Chechen gangster bringing refugees into Britain as prostitutes. When Rebus takes a distraught Bosnian call girl under his…
First Published: 1998Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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Black and Blue
Rebus is juggling four cases trying to nail one killer – who might just lead back to the infamous Bible John. And he’s doing it under the scrutiny of an internal inquiry led by a man he has just accused of taking backhanders from Glasgow’s Mr Big. As if this wasn’t enough, there are TV…
First Published: 1997Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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Blood Hunt
It begins with a phone call. Gordon Reeve’s brother has been found dead in his car in San Diego. The car was locked from the inside, a gun was in his hand. In the US to identify the body Gordon realises that his brother has been murdered. What’s more, it’s soon obvious that his own…
First Published: 1995Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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Let it Bleed
Struggling through another Edinburgh winter, Rebus finds himself sucked into a web of intrigue that throws up more questions than answers. Was the Lord Provost’s daughter kidnapped or just another runaway? Why is a city councillor shredding documents that should have been waste paper years ago? And why on earth is Rebus invited to a…
First Published: 1995Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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Bleeding Hearts
The death of a journalist from a single bullet to the heart makes for a dramatic story – but the twist in the tale is that this time, it’s the man who fired the gun who’s asking all the questions… The assassin, Michael Weston, knows he has carried out his assignment successfully. One mistake was…
First Published: 1994Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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Mortal Causes
It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing… A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city’s ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving with tourists is almost unthinkable.…
First Published: 1994Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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The Black Book
When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long-forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague’s notebook, Rebus must piece together the most complex and confusing of jigsaws.…
First Published: 1993Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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Witch Hunt
Interpol have tried and failed to find the terrorist, Witch. Now the combined forces of Scotland Yard and MI5 must try the impossible to prevent a major international incident. Dominic Elder carries her autograph wherever he goes. Witch is his passion, his obsession. And being retired is no bar to his willingness to restart the…
First Published: 1993Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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A Good Hanging
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…
First Published: 1992Available As:Full Details- Paperback
Strip Jack
Gregor Jack, MP, well-liked, young, married to the fiery Elizabeth – to the outside world a very public success story. But Jack’s carefully nurtured career plans take a tumble after a ‘mistake’ during a police raid on a notorious Edinburgh brothel. Then Elizabeth disappears, a couple of bodies float into view where they shouldn’t, and…
First Published: 1992Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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Tooth and Nail
They call him the Wolfman – because he takes a bite out of his victims and because they found the first victim in the East End’s lonely Wolf Street. Scotland Yard are anxious to find the killer and Inspector Rebus is drafted in to help. But his Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn’t happy…
First Published: 1992Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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Watchman
Bombs are exploding in the streets of London, but life seems to have planted more subtle booby-traps for Miles Flint. Miles is a spy. His job is to watch and to listen, then to report back to his superiors, nothing more. The job, affording glimpses into the most private lives of his victims, appeals to…
First Published: 1988Available As:Full Details- Hardback
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Knots & Crosses
The very first Rebus novel. ‘And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you…?’ ‘That sort of thing’ is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. Detective Sergeant…
First Published: 1987Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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The Flood
The book that began Ian Rankin’s phenomenal career. Mary Miller had always been an outcast. Burnt in a chemical mix as a young girl, sympathy for her quickly faded when the young man who pushed her in died in a mining accident just two days later. From then on she was regarded with a mixture…
First Published: 1986Available As:Full Details- Paperback
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