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THES Editorial (26 November 1999). "Glittering Prizes". The Times Higher Education Supplement . Retrieved 7 January 2013. An Afternoon" (1984) (published in New Writing Scotland No. 2) (slightly revised version published in OxCrimes, 2014) Like Rebus, readers will find no city more beautiful than Edinburgh, no locale more intriguing than Arthur’s Seat—and no characters in the genre more provocative or sharply delineated than Rankin’s ongoing cast. The Falls is at its best as a series of engrossing character studies. It is a complex mystery novel, as you would expect from Rankin, one of a handful of truly outstanding British mystery writers. But what is most fascinating is the interaction between the misfit cast assembled to help solve the mystery of the disappearance of the student daughter of an influential Edinburgh banker. (...) Terrific." - Peter Guttridge, The Observer a b "The CWA Short Story Dagger". Crime Writers Association. 5 July 2012. Archived from the original on 19 January 2013 . Retrieved 7 January 2013.
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Ian Rankin Newsletter". Ianrankin.net. Archived from the original on 3 May 2015 . Retrieved 4 November 2010. John Rebus" (2007) ( Mysterious Profile #8, a chapbook published by The Mysterious Bookshop in NYC in a signed limited hardcover edition of 100 copies and 1,000 softcover copies; reprinted in the UK edition of The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories as "Rankin on Rebus")Shortlist for Theakston's Crime Novel of the year Award 2009". digyorkshire.com. 2 June 2009. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016 . Retrieved 17 June 2009. Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. The University of Hull awards Honorary Degrees for Inspirational Achievements". University of Hull. 27 January 2006. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013 . Retrieved 8 January 2013.
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Other aspects of the novel are better, including the personal demons affecting those who knew Flip. Clarke's online game-playing is terribly quaint -- and completely unrealistic, as is almost all the computer-related dialogue (" 'What are the chat rooms ?' - 'Tekky stuff' "). 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. The Inspector Rebus series is now considered major contributors of the Tartan Noir genre; crime fiction rooted in the Scottish tradition. In 2009, Ian Rankin donated his short story “Fieldwork” to the Ox-Tales project, which features four collections of UK stories. In 2009 Rankin wrote Dark Entries, a graphic novel, in which a man struggles to escape a reality television show for Hell. The Inspector Rebus Series The focus on the police, with prominent roles for Rebus' colleagues and a good deal of office politics, is welcome.John Rebus once served in Britain's elite SAS. Now he's an Edinburgh cop who hides from his memories and misses promotions. To solve brutal murders, he enters the grittiest sides of Edinburgh, the dark heart of contemporary Scotland which lurks behind the elegant and historic buildings. Cinders" (2015) (Rebus; published in the US edition of The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories)
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John Rebus is one of the most enduring characters in crime fiction, first appearing in Knots & Crosses in 1987. Detective Novels: The Pact Between Authors and Readers" (1998) (article; published in The Writer, December) Ian Rankin's John Rebus, arguably the most realistic detective in crime fiction, is a brilliant but troubled man. When a young woman goes missing near his native Edinburgh, Scotland, Rebus finds himself just one small cog in the huge wheel of an inquiry set in motion by her powerfully rich father. Struggling to deal with both his own often-terrifying inner demons as well as the monstrous bureaucracy of the investigative team, Rebus finds himself drawn again and again into the case, desperately searching for the girl's salvation, as well as his own.MacBride, Stuart (12 August 2016). "Tartan Noir: A very strange beast". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC . Retrieved 16 January 2021. Robinson, David, "Mystery Man: In Search of the real Ian Rankin", in The Scotsman 10 March 2001, S2Weekend, pp.1–4.
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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] My Shopping Day" (1997) (Rebus; published in Herbert in Motion & Other Stories [limited edition chapbook of 200 copies]; not included in the UK edition of The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories, but included in the U.S. edition) Duin, Steve (7 April 2009). "Ian Rankin vs. Brian Azzarello". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 11 April 2009 . Retrieved 13 April 2009.The Falls, although less layered and tense (....) than some of Rankin's other novels, it is still very enjoyable and shouldn't be missed." - Harriet Waugh, The Spectator 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!”
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