‘Britain’s best crime novelist’ Daily Express
STRIP JACK
To the outside world, MP Gregor Jack is well-liked and successful. But his carefully nurtured career takes a tumble after a ‘mistake’ during a police raid on a notorious Edinburgh brothel. Then his wife disappears and a couple of bodies float into view where they shouldn’t… Rebus soon realises that not only is the MP’s image tarnishing fast – but someone wants to strip Jack naked – and Rebus wants to know why.
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 the most complex and confusing of jigsaws.
But not everyone wants the puzzle solved – perhaps not even Rebus himself…
MORTAL CAUSES
It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing… A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city’s ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving with tourists is almost unthinkable. When the victim turns out to be the son of a notorious gangster, Rebus realises he is sitting atop a volcano of mayhem – and it’s just about to erupt.
‘Rankin’s ability to create a credible character, delivering convincing dialogue to complement sinister and hard-hitting plots against vividly detailed atmosphere, is simply awesome’ Time Out
STRIP JACK
To the outside world, MP Gregor Jack is well-liked and successful. But his carefully nurtured career takes a tumble after a ‘mistake’ during a police raid on a notorious Edinburgh brothel. Then his wife disappears and a couple of bodies float into view where they shouldn’t… Rebus soon realises that not only is the MP’s image tarnishing fast – but someone wants to strip Jack naked – and Rebus wants to know why.
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 the most complex and confusing of jigsaws.
But not everyone wants the puzzle solved – perhaps not even Rebus himself…
MORTAL CAUSES
It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing… A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city’s ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving with tourists is almost unthinkable. When the victim turns out to be the son of a notorious gangster, Rebus realises he is sitting atop a volcano of mayhem – and it’s just about to erupt.
‘Rankin’s ability to create a credible character, delivering convincing dialogue to complement sinister and hard-hitting plots against vividly detailed atmosphere, is simply awesome’ Time Out
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Reviews
Rankin is a master storyteller
Escapes the shackles of the crime novel genre and can be classed as great fiction, full stop
One of Britain's leading novelists in any genre
Britain's No.1 crime writer
Rankin's ability to create a credible character, delivering convincing dialogue to complement sinister and hard-hitting plots against vividly detailed atmosphere, is simply awesome
Ian Rankin is a genius
Rankin is a phenomenon ... I would rather read Rankin than any other living Scottish writer They call his work crime fiction, but the adjective is superfluous - these novels are totally absorbing
Unsurpassed among living British crime writers
Worthy of Agatha Christie at her best