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Ian Rankin’s first novel was The Flood in the year 1986. His following novel, Knots and Crosses, was published in 1987. This novel was the first of the Rebus series, for which he has become extremely famous. However, Rankin did not intend on becoming a crime writer. He was perturbed by the classification of his first two novels, Knots and Crosses and Hide and Seek, as fiction. Rankin believed the books were more in line with the Scottish traditions of other Scottish novelists. The Very Last Drop" (2013) (Rebus; written to read aloud at an Edinburgh charity event to help the work of Royal Blind; published in the US and UK editions of The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories) William McIlvanney's final novel, The Dark Remains, based on a manuscript McIlvanney left when he died in 2015, was completed by Ian Rankin and released in September 2021. [63] [64] Flood, Alison (5 December 2020). "Ian Rankin to complete William McIlvanney's final novel The Dark Remains". The Guardian.

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Rankin did not set out to be a crime writer. He thought his first novels, Knots and Crosses and Hide and Seek, were mainstream books, more in keeping with the Scottish traditions of Robert Louis Stevenson and even Muriel Spark. He was disconcerted by their classification as genre fiction. The Scottish novelist Allan Massie, who tutored Rankin while Massie was writer-in-residence at the University of Edinburgh, reassured him by saying, "Do you think John Buchan ever worried about whether he was writing literature or not?" [9]

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A Three-Pint Problem" (2014) (Rebus; published in the UK and US editions of The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories) Ian Rankin latest news, Exit Music, Ian Rankin Rebus novels, Doors Open novel, Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year, Galaxy British Book Awards". Ianrankin.net. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015 . Retrieved 8 November 2012. Not Just another Saturday" (August 2005) (Rebus; written for SNIP, a charity organisation; people in attendance of the event were provided with a "typescript" of the story) No Sanity Clause" (2000) (Rebus; originally titled "Father Christmas's Revenge, published in The Daily Telegraph, December) Lyceum Aims for Top Rankin with Dark Road". scotsman.com. The Scotsman. 1 May 2013 . Retrieved 19 October 2013.

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Ferguson, Brian (10 May 2020). "National Library lifts lid on vast archive donated by Ian Rankin". Edinburgh Evening News . Retrieved 12 May 2020. Barnett, Laura (11 December 2012). "Ian Rankin, Author—Portrait of the Artist". The Guardian . Retrieved 8 January 2013.

In 2022, Rankin signed a deal with publisher Orion to write two new John Rebus novels. [21] Later that same year, he received a Knighthood from HM Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature and charity as part of her Birthday Honours List. Rankin does a lot of the basic stuff -- the writing, the suspense, and especially the personal (and professional) relationships -- well, but he's built it on a flimsy situation here, and the book groans under the strain. Cinders" (2015) (Rebus; published in the US edition of The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories)

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Worse yet, the quiz-game that is played is one with simply terrible clues -- and not much of a game at that. Limited edition bibliomystery; No 26 in a series of short stories by crime writers, Death Sentences [57] Rankin is, unfortunately, clearly not computer savvy, and the level of sophistication regarding technical matters sounds closer to about 1991 than 2001 (when the book was written) -- in either case, Rankin sorely underestimates the technical know-how the police would have at their disposal.There are enough decent scenes and lots of tension (personal and otherwise) to mildly hold the reader's interest, and there is some decent resolution. An Afternoon" (1984) (published in New Writing Scotland No. 2) (slightly revised version published in OxCrimes, 2014)

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Plot. John Rebus discovers the body of a drug addict amongst two burned candles, and a five-pointed star. While other detectives brush off the murder, Rebus pursues the murder. Rebus finds a young woman named Tracy who recalls the dead man’s last words as “hide!”University honour for award-winning author". University of St Andrews. 3 February 2000. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015 . Retrieved 7 January 2013. Dan Crowe, ed. (2013). Dead Interviews: Living Writers Meet Dead Icons. Granta, London. pp. 143–153. ISBN 978-1-84708-827-7. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.