After the sad
retirement of Inspector Rebus what next? Well, in September
2008 “Doors Open” will be published in hardback
and on CD, Ian Rankin’s first stand-alone thriller for over
a decade. Still set in Edinburgh but a very different Edinburgh
than that inhabited by Rebus, where Mike Mackenzie is a self-made
man looking for stimulation in the form of planning and executing
the crime that never happened. Ian Rankin
has won numerous awards and honorary degrees, and in 2002 was
awarded the OBE for services to literature. He is a contributor
to BBC2’s ‘Newsnight Review’ and has also presented his own
TV series, ‘Ian Rankin’s Evil Thoughts’. Ian Rankin lives in
Edinburgh with his wife and two sons. Interesting
snippets:
Since graduating from the University of Edinburgh Ian Rankin
was employed as a grape-picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol researcher,
hi-fi journalist and punk musician, before achieving success
in writing novels.
Bibliography:
Rebus Novels in paperback:
Book 17: ‘Exit Music’
Book 16: ‘The Naming of the Dead’
Book 15: ‘Fleshmarket Close’
Book 14: ‘A Question of Blood’
Book 13: ‘Resurrection Men’
Book 12: ‘The Falls’
Book 11: ‘Set in Darkness’
Book 10: ‘Dead Souls’
Book 9: ‘The Hanging Garden’
Book 8: ‘Black and Blue’
Book 7: ‘Let it Bleed’
Book 6: ‘Mortal Causes’
Book 5: ‘The Black Book’
Book 4: ‘Strip Jack’
Book 3: ‘Tooth and Nail’
Book 2: ‘Hide and Seek’
Book 1: ‘Knots and Crosses’
The Jack Harvey novels:
Book 3: ‘Cold Blood’
Book 2: ‘Bleeding Hearts’
Book 1: ‘Witch Hunt’
Other Novels:
Beggars Banquet
Watchman
The Flood
Westwind
Jackie Leven Said
The Complaints, 2009
Prizes and Awards:
1997, Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction, for Black and Blue
2002, The Edgar Award, for Resurrection Men
2005, CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger, for Rebus’ Scotland: A Personal
Journey
2007, ITV3 Crime Thriller Award, for Exit Music
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