Ian Rankin

From #1 international bestselling author Ian Rankin, John Rebus spent his life as a cop putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars—but after being convicted of a homicide, he's joining them instead. A convict is brutally murdered in his locked cell deep in the heart of...

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 would rather he retire than stick around. But as Rebus investigates, he must deal with the sleazy Edinburgh...

In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive high-rise—and every resident is a suspect....

Gravy worked in the graveyard - hence the name. He was having a normal day until his friend Benjy turned up in a car Gravy didn't recognise....

Bombs are exploding in the streets of London, but life seems to have planted more subtle booby-traps for Miles Flint, a spy....

Inspector John Rebus must disinter all four cases to nail just one killer who might just lead back to the infamous Bible John.....

In Rebus's Scotland Ian Rankin 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....

Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul. He wants to commit a "perfect crime"....

An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack? Or something else....

Gregor Jack, MP, well-liked, young, married to the fiery Elizabeth - to the outside world a very public success story....

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh; completely out of character....

Two seventeen-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...

Mary Miller is an outcast, believed by some to have occult powers, and is the mother of a bastard son, Sandy....

Winner of the British Book Awards, Crime Thriller of the Year, 2007.
Set against the backdrop of the explosive 2005 G8 summit, this is Rankin's most hard-hitting novel yet. For among the hordes of protesters filling the streets, a serial killer lurks....

Rebus is off the case, quite literally. A few days into a murder inquiry following the brutal death of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus blows up at his superior and is sent into purdah....

Europe, 1990. As the US begins to pull out its troops in a tide of isolationism, Britain is torn between its loyalties to the USA and its continental neighbours....

Ein illegaler Einwanderer wird ermordet in einer Edinburgher Sozialsiedlung gefunden - ein Mord mit rassistischem Hintergrund oder etwas ganz anderes?

When a wealthy banker's daughter goes missing from Edinburgh University, Detective Inspector John Rebus has little to go on in his investigations....

There is no detective like Ian Rankin's Detective Inspector John Rebus, a man The New Yorker calls "the ideal sleuth." Brilliant, irascible and frequently frustrating to both his friends and his long-suffering bosses, John Rebus has made the dark places of Edinburgh his home for over two decades...

It's late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. Rebus discovers...