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Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus Crime Thriller Series Finale…

Ian Rankin’s Exit Music, published in December 2007, was to be the final instalment of a series of eighteen ( if we include Death Is Not The End, a novella that was further expanded in the novel Dead Souls) crime novels featuring the well known and charismatic Edinburgh’s Inspector John […]

Winners of the CWA Award For The Best Crime Novel Writing and more…

Okay Mairiuna! 🙂 It’s with great pleasure that I will try to shed some light on the prestigious 2006 to 2008 Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award honoring the very best in English crime and thriller writings.

But before I disclose the names of the authors who received the ornamental dagger and a £20,000 prize tied to […]

From Mitchell Library to Loch Croispol Bookshop

Books books books! What insatiable bookworms we are, Janice, “de vrais rats de bibliothèque” as we would say in France. Are we going to become like Inspector Rebus? Remember what Ian Rankin has written about him in Knots & Crosses?

Rebus collected unread books. Once upon a time, he had actually read the books that […]

A Sense of Place… Discover Edinburgh through Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus Stories

England Motorways

Take a good detective novel with you in the car, read it or listen to it and you’ll soon forget bad weather, heavy traffic and long hours of driving on dull motorways. As Janice mentioned it to you, in her last post, that’s exactly what we did on our long journey […]

Crime Fiction at its Best with Ian Rankin’s ‘Set In Darkness’ – An Inspector Rebus Novel

Du Fond Des Tenebres – Ian Rankin

It is with great pleasure Mairiuna that I will undertake with you this challenge of reading the complete series of 17 novels from Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series.

While I await reception of my Amazon order for the first novel in the detective series, Knots and […]