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The Black Book

Tooth & Nail

A Good Hanging and Other Stories

Watchman

Knots and Crosses

Paperback - Orion (1997)

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 a jigsaw no one - perhaps not even he - wants completed.
'Scots cop John Rebus - an outstanding creation' Daily Telegraph
'Rankin ranks alongside P.D.James and Michael Dibdin as Britain's finest detective novelist' Scotland on Sunday
'Rankin captures, like no one else, that strangeness that is Scotland at the end of the twentieth century. He has always written superb crime fiction… but what he's also pinning sown is instant history' Literary Review
'Rankin writes laconic, sophisticated, well-paced thrillers' The Scotsman
'One of the fastest-rising contemporary British sleuths is Ian Rankin's Inspector John Rebus, a character who's just begging for the right television treatment. Powerful characterisation and a strong sense of place dominate the Rebus novels… A talent not to be ignored' Time Out
'Rankin strips Edinburgh's polite façade to its gritty skeleton' The Times
'The internal police politics and corruption in high places are both portrayed with bone-freezing accuracy. This novel should come with a wind-chill factor warning' Daily Telegraph
'A brutal but beautifully written series… Rankin pushes the procedural form well past conventional genre limits' New York Times
'Ian Rankin provides some welcome fresh blood on the scene. Morse and Wexford had better watch out' Daily Telegraph
'A classic personality detective-story in the tradition of Holmes right through to Morse' Birmingham Post

Paperback - Orion (1998)

Tooth & Nail
Because the first body was found in Wolf Street, because the murderer takes a bite from each body, the press have found a new terror, the Wolfman…
Drafted down to the Big Smoke thanks to a supposed expertise in the modus operandi of serial killers, Inspector John Rebus is on a train south from Edinburgh. His Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight isn't too happy at yet more interference. It's bad enough having several Chief Inspectors on your back without being hounded at every turn by an upstart Jock. Rebus is going to have to deal with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac. When he's offered a serial killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive lady psychologist, it's too good an opportunity to turn down. But in finding an ally, he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack. Previously published as Wolfman
‘A real scalp-prickler and a fine creation in Rebus’ Observer
‘An ingenious shaker, vividly sordid’ Sunday Times

Paperback - Orion (1998)

A Good Hanging and Other Stories
Twelve Inspector Rebus Mysteries
Twelve terrific stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus: His home city of Edinburgh is not just the tartan tea-rooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban conurbation with the full range of criminals and their victims - blackmailers, Peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It is a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accident and long-hidden jealousy.
'Britain's finest detective novelist' Scotland on Sunday
'An outstanding creation' Daily Telegraph
'Top-notch, The bleakness is unrelenting, but it quite suits Mr Rankin, who does his best work in the dark' New York Times
‘(Rebus) is a superbly drawn character; matched by the edgy authenticity of the Scottish locale and dialogue' The Times
'Very ambitious and very confident with acute observation of the not so bonny side of Scotland' Daily Telegraph
'James Ellroy once called Rankin "the Scottish James Ellroy" in jest. They have the darkness in common, certainly, but Rankin has more elegance and less profanity' Time Out

Hardback
Orion (2003)

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, offering glimpses into the most private lives of his victims, appeals to Miles. He doesn’t lust after promotion, and he doesn’t want action. He wants, just for once, not to botch a case. Having lost one suspect - with horrific consequences - Miles becomes too involved with another, a young Irishwoman. His marriage seems ready to crumble to dust. So does his home. He is being pursued by `The Hell-Raiser of Fleet Street’, reporter Jim Stevens, who also has his sights set on MP Harry Sizewell.
Meanwhile, Miles, pursuing dreams of beetles and moles, is given one last chance of redemption - a trip to Belfast, which quickly becomes a flight of terror, murder and shocking discoveries. But can the voyeur survive in a world of violent action?
Ian Rankin’s hard-to-find early spy novel, reissued with a new introduction by the author.
Praise for Resurrection Men - Number One Bestseller
‘Rankin weaves his plots with a menacing ease ... His prose is understated and his ear for dialogue is as sharp as a switchblade. This is, quite simply, crime writing of the highest order.’ Sunday Express
‘Rankin conveys the visceral fears and hatreds lurking just below the smart Georgian surface of the ‘you’ll have had your tea’ New Town.’ Sunday Telegraph
`Bears all the qualities that have established Rankin as one of Britain’s leading novelists in any genre: a powerful sense of place; a redefinition of Scotland and its past; persuasive dialogue and a growing compassion among its characters.’ New Statesman

Hardback
Orion (2007)

Knots and Crosses
The very first Rebus novel from No.1 bestselling author Ian Rankin
Collectors' edition for the 20th anniversary.

'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 John Rebus, smoking and drinking too much, his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife, is one of many policemen hunting the killer. And then the messages begin to arrive: knotted string and matchstick crosses - taunting Rebus with pieces of a puzzle only he can solve.
Now reissued here with notes and material cut from the first publication, Knots & Crosses is a landmark novel – both a gripping, absorbing mystery and the genesis of one of the most compelling detectives around.