A Heart Full of Headstones: The Gripping New Must-Read Thriller from the No.1 Bestseller Ian Rankin

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In fairness, he’s grown into a pantomime villain of a figure who offsets Clarke and Rebus well here. Rebus has been played by two actors on the small screen and a new adaptation is set to start filming next month. Set in Edinburgh during the peak of the COVID lockdowns in early 2020, Past Lying is a very engaging mystery that features an interesting ‘story within a story’ plot and some great atmospheric writing.

Some people love this and can’t wait to see their favourite stories and characters brought to life on screen. I always reckon if I don’t know who did it at the start of a book when I start writing it, probably you won’t know who did it when you start reading it. Thankfully, Rebus is in the thick of the action, having been persuaded by Cafferty to look for his rumoured victim who he’s heard is alive and well and back in Edinburgh; it seems he’s keen to apologise for his historic threats and to make reparations.Talk about lifestyles of the rich and shameless – really the true target of this whole case could have been anyone. Also on the team, DC Christine Essen, a couple of detectives from previous MIT investigations, a couple of fresh faces, plus DCI Malcolm Fox.

I walked the Fife Coastal Path with my old school friend John (it nearly killed me or at any rate did for my feet – one of my toes is still black and another lost its nail entirely). In the United States, he has won the celebrated Edgar Award and been shortlisted for the Anthony Award. Gillian has her work cut out for her, as the residents of the gleaming residential tower are all very rich and not without influence and they do not take kindly to finding their gilded lifestyles under police scrutiny.Those who found this one boring probably need to do their homework - ie, delve into previous novels by this master of the genre.

Oliver Bullough’s Butler to the World and other books about money swilling around London were part of the inspiration.There has also been good news on the TV front and the streaming service ViaPlay hope to have Rebus on our screens some time in 2024 – filming is due to commence in the spring. The Rise is a gleaming residential tower, newly constructed from steel and blackened glass, that stands on some of London’s most prestigious real estate. Obstructed continually by locked doors, governments both foreign and domestic, and an apparent absence of motive, can DS Gish solve this impenetrable mystery and apprehend the murderer—before they slip away forever? This allows Rebus to drift through crime scenes not connected to his own quest, and revisit some of his old connections at the disreputable Tynecastle police station. They have different reactions to the past, and whether or not they feel the need to make amends for it.