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	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Ian Rankin
		Ian took a job as an assistant at the National Folktale Centre, and then moved into journalism, rising from Editorial Assistant at the monthly national magazine "Hi-Fi Review", to editor of the same prestigious organ.
		In 1988 Ian was elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also winner of the 1991-2 Chandler-Fulbright Award, one of the world's most prestigious detective fiction prizes (funded by the estate of Raymond Chandler).
		Ian now divides his time between Edinburgh, London and France, and is married with two sons.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-rankin-ian.asp (2320 words)

	BookPage Interview February 2004: Ian Rankin
		But Ian Rankin, whose Inspector Rebus novels are the number-one selling mysteries in Great Britain, may be the only crime novelist who began his career as a murder suspect.
		Rankin answers this and other questions by phone from his home in Edinburgh, where he's preparing to embark on a 15-city U.S. book tour to promote his 16th Rebus novel, The Question of Blood.
		Rankin was escorted to the inquiry room and given the third degree.
	www.bookpage.com /0402bp/ian_rankin.html (964 words)

	Witch Hunt by Ian Rankin - review
		Rankin explores the intricacies of both police and intelligence work, showing that patience, persistence, and luck are all factors in a successful outcome.
		Rankin takes pains to humanize her, however, and we learn how she came to be one of the world's most sought-after killers.
		Ian Rankin was born in 1960 in the Scottish village of Cardenden and was educated locally.
	mostlyfiction.com /spy-thriller/rankin.htm (696 words)

	Ian Rankin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was never Rankin's intention for Rebus to become a series character, indeed not even a crime fiction character, hence it was three years and two books later before Rebus returned in Hide and Seek.
		Despite a hectic writing schedule Ian Rankin still found time for a pseudonym, Jack Harvey, three novels were published by Headline between 1993 and 1995, Witch Hunt, Bleeding Hearts and Blood Hunt respectively.
		Ian Rankin's output continues to be prodigious and Rebus continues to date with ever inceasing popularity amongst both collectors and readers alike.
	www.britishcouncil.org /italy-arts-ianrankin.htm (216 words)

	Ian Rankin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ian Rankin (born April 28, 1960 in Fife, Scotland) is one of the best-selling crime writers of the United Kingdom, and one of the world's foremost writers in the genre.
		Rankin is best known for his Inspector Rebus novels, which are set in Edinburgh.
		He has also won two Crime Writers Association (CWA) ‘Dagger’s for Short-Stories and in 1997 the CWA Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction for Black and Blue (which was also short listed for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for best novel).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ian_Rankin (367 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Ian Rankin & Rebus - Book review: Ian Rankin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At their best, as in Herbert in Motion, they show Rankin’s exceptional talent for judging how the pace and twist of a short story can be worked to its best advantage.
		As Rankin himself points out in his introduction, all you need for a good short story is a single idea.
		Although Rankin writes short stories to get Rebus out of his system between his major novels, neither the detective nor the city of Edinburgh are completely sidelined.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=810&id=770062002 (752 words)

	Bookreporter.com - A QUESTION OF BLOOD by Ian Rankin
		Rankin's books are set in Scotland, but their universal themes transcend geography and his adroitly depicted human relations evoke a sense of the familiar, the approachable.
		Rankin said in a online interview that he incorporates true crimes or at least refers to them in his books because "I have made a conscious effort to use real crimes and real-life mysteries in my books.
		Ian Rankin may not have a specific game plan in mind at the moment, but fans and readers around the globe will certainly want him to keep John Rebus around for a long time.
	aolsvc.bookreporter.aol.com /reviews/0316095648.asp (1191 words)

	What Books: The Falls (Inspector Rebus S.), by Ian Rankin
		Needless to say, this is more than just the case of a spoilt rich girl breaking out of the cage of family responsibilities, and a carved wooden doll in a coffin found in her home village leads Rebus to the Internet role-playing game that she was involved in.
		Ian Rankin's The Falls continues John Rebus's war against crime in Edinburgh.
		Ian Rankin always comes up with a plot that has everyone wondering - right through to the end and with the help of the usual cast of characters Rebus comes up with the answers.
	www.whatbooks.com /uk/book/0752844059.html (999 words)

	Ian_rankin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rankin at his finest : I have to admit that I am an Ian Rankin junkie.
		Rankin is the Best : Ian Rankin once again proves that he is amongst the best, if not the best writer of Crime Fiction in the world.
		Rankin is a very good writer, but what he does best is setting up strong, shocking, and sometimes moving police precedurals around seeming mysteries...
	books.mysic.com /Author/Ian_Rankin (1489 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Excess Baggage - Ian Rankin's Edinburgh
		Ian Rankin is the creator of Inspector Rebus, an Edinburgh cop.
		Ian Rankin lives in Edinburgh, and his award-winning 'Inspector Rebus' novels have topped the Sunday Times bestseller lists.
		Ian shows Sandi some of the places that have inspired his imagination and his writing.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/excessbaggage/index_20050101.shtml (238 words)

	Undiscovered Scotland: Bookshop: Ian Rankin
		It is also partly an autobiography of Ian Rankin, explaining where he comes from and what his inspirations are.
		From bestselling Ian Rankin, winner of the 1997 CWA Macallan Gold Dagger for fiction for Black and Blue, come the first 3 Inspector Rebus novels, gathered in one volume for the first time.
		The Hanging Garden (An Inspector Rebus Novel): Ian Rankin (September 2000) Ian Rankin's 9th book about Inspector John Rebus of the Edinburgh police is so full of story that it seems about to explode into shapeless anarchy at any moment.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /usbookshop/usbs-ianrankin.html (729 words)

	Ian Rankin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bestselling crime-writer Ian Rankin was born in Fife, Scotland, in 1960.
		Rankin returned to Rebus in Hide and Seek (1991), whose epigraph from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde underscores the updating of its themes: Rebus's investigation of the death of a heroin junkie leads to prominent businessmen connected to Edinburgh's drugs and gay rent boy scene.
		Ian Rankin may well be the finest and most popular Scottish writer of detective fiction since his great Edinburgh predecessor Conan Doyle.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors?p=auth02A17M435212626443 (1518 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Ian Rankin & Rebus
		CRIME writer Ian Rankin claims crime and science fiction authors are under-appreciated by the literary establishment.
		IAN RANKIN took a year off to decide how to end his Rebus crime series, but found it wasn't that simple.
		AUTHOR Ian Rankin has admitted he may continue writing his Rebus novels after the issue of the...
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=810 (422 words)

	Rankin leads authors’ assault on heavy-handed arts policy - [Sunday Herald]
		REBUS author Ian Rankin has launched an excoriating attack on the Scottish Executive’s plans for a Cultural Commission as unneccessarily prescriptive, lacking in excitement or pride and crammed with “a series of negatives”.
		Rankin attacks the suggestion, which he infers, that art is acceptable “only if it is available to all”, and rails against the artistic community being answerable to “stakeholders”.
		Rankin concedes he may be seen as elitist, but adds that writers write in the first instance for themselves – “the most extreme form of elitism there is”.
	www.sundayherald.com /42039 (894 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Ian Rankin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ian Rankin's fictional detective, John Rebus is moody, dogged, and getting older by the day, policing in a city that keeps him constantly challenged.
		Rankin's work is consistently superior, and Fleshmarket Alley, his fifteenth Rebus novel, has already garnered glowing reviews.
		Rankin: I think there are quite subtle differences and I think it is due to the fact that the English crime novel was very slow to escape the shadow of the cozy.
	www.powells.com /authors/rankin.html (4360 words)

	Ian Rankin -- The Falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		James Ellroy calls Ian Rankin's blend of classic mystery, Scottish history, and hardboiled characters "tartan noir." Rankin's series character, Inspector John Rebus, is a brooding, chain-smoking, heavy drinker who loves classic rock music.
		Rankin explores the seemingly quaint northern city, exposing a seedy, dark side known best to the people who police her.
		Rankin skillfully handles an enormous cast of colorful characters and an intricate plot.
	girlygurls.com /thefalls.htm (407 words)

	The Book Forum - Ian Rankin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I notice on the homepage that the new Ian Rankin novel is out soon.
		I like Rankin's style and the way he manages to come up with plots that are complicated yet plausible.
		I'll even forgive Rankin for using that rather old fashioned plot technique in which a series of supposedly separate cases end up being intertwined.
	www.thebookforum.com /forums/printthread.php?t=892 (666 words)

	NOW: Rankin Ranks, Oct 18 - 24, 2001
		Rankin's hero, insubordinate and disillusioned alcoholic detective inspector John Rebus, isn't anything new in terms of the hard-boiled police procedural genre.
		But the quality of Rankin's prose, the emotional complexity of his characters and, above all, the books' realism (the political and urban upheaval Edinburgh is experiencing as part of the recent introduction of the Scottish parliament forms a narrative thread throughout the series) make the Rebus books stand out.
		Now that Rankin has found an eager audience, the earlier titles are also selling well, and with an ITV television series starring John Hannah introducing Rebus to global audiences (TVO is airing it as part of Mystery!), any more time Rankin spends slumming will be a matter of creative luxury.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2001-10-18/books_reviews2.html (371 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Fleshmarket Close (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Instead, what Rankin does is use his novel as a kind of melting-pot for the discussion so far, as well as adding a few snappy ingredients of his own.
		Author Ian Rankin serves up his hero warts and all, packaged into tales of the city that tackle the issues of the day from all perspectives.
		Rankin has apparently suggested that at one book each year, he could write FIVE MORE Rebus novels, by which time the fictitious detective will be 60 and due to retire.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0752851128 (2009 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Rankin, Ian
		Rankin, who has also written as Jack Harvey, claims he didn't mean to write crime fiction and didn't think that was what he was doing.
		Ian Rankin shows his mastery of a form that causes particular problems for genre writers in his Complete Short Stories, says Peter Guttridge.
		Ian Rankin's eleventh Rebus novel, Set in Darkness, shows a writer at the height of his powers, while George P Pelecanos's Shame the Devil is a hardboiled delight and Joseph Glass's Blood a clunky disappointment
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,99878,00.html (432 words)

	Ian Rankin - Resurrection Men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Rebus is in absolutely wonderful form yet again in a complex, engrossing, and incredibly strong book, and DS Clarke is marvelous, becoming more and more like her boss every day.
		It is clear that Rankin is priming her to step into Rebus' shoes upon his retirement, which is surely not far away.
		And when Rankin does retire him to a more background role, readers need not worry, as Clarke is an ideal replacement.
	www.girlygurls.com /resurrectionmen.htm (423 words)

	'Set In Darkness': Ian Rankin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ian Rankin: I don't like it when the cop travels away from their residence.
		Ian Rankin: The problem is that my wife doesn't like any of the women I've set him up with so far, so they tend not to last.
		Ian Rankin: I think we like heroes who are outsiders, and they can only be outsiders if there's someone there for them to rebel against; hence the superior officer syndrome.
	www.usatoday.com /community/chat/1115rankin.htm (1336 words)

	Coda Agency - Jackie Leven & Ian Rankin (Jackie Leven Said) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the end of the concert - when the story is concluded, Ian and Jackie indulge in some world class badinage which has an appreciative audience laughing their heads off.
		The coming together on stage of Ian Rankin, the wildly successful author, known especially for his remarkable 'Rebus' series of novels, and Jackie Leven, one of the UK's most revered singers and maker of a critically acclaimed lengthy series of albums, is at first glance an unlikely combination of talents.
		Amazed to discover himself written into a Rebus book he was reading (Resurrection Men) as a singer much appreciated by John Rebus, Jackie got in touch with Ian to say thanks and hello, and the two resolved to watch each other perform their separate shows at 2003's Edinburgh Festival.
	www.codaagency.com /jacleve2.html (807 words)

	Ian Rankin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rankin has also peopled the novel with characters who are believable and interesting, each of them contributing their own peculiar flavour to end product.
		It is impossible for Rankin to re-define him in each episode, what we are presented with is a snapshot of the Inspector at the time of his current case.
		If nothing else, Rankin's novel has given me a glimpse behind a door that was previously closed, has given me a tiny insight into the Scottish psyche.
	homepage.eircom.net /~albedo1/html/ian_rankin.html (607 words)

	JS Online: Author Rankin, other Scots follow in footsteps of 'Dr. Jekyll'
		American writer James Ellroy coined the phrase "tartan noir" for a blurb for one of Scottish writer Ian Rankin's dark mysteries, and the label stuck.
		Rankin, an Edinburgh native, may be the clan's current chieftain, but the dark threads of tartan noir can be traced to Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
		As a result of the cultural legacies of Calvinism and the centuries-long chokehold of Scotland's neighbor to the south, novels in the tartan tradition are sharply class conscious, darkly ironic, deeply compassionate and very cheeky.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/jun04/239245.asp (1284 words)

	Book Review - A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin
		I knew Ian Rankin was the best selling mystery writer in the United Kingdom, so I decided to take a chance and bought the book.
		For those who are long time readers of Ian Rankin's John Rebus series, this review won't be able to tell you how this novel fits into the series, how more of Rebus' character unravels to the reader, or how Ian Rankin's style or thematic structure has changed over time.
		For those of you who have yet to read anything by Ian Rankin, this novel stands on its own and is engrossing and suspenseful in its own right.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /question_of_blood/review (1005 words)

	'The Falls' by Ian Rankin
		In fact, it’s typical for Ian Rankin’s 14 previous books,which feature Rebus, his interesting crew and, especially, the city of Edinburgh.
		Rankin’s latest continues to demonstrate these fine qualities, although there is an Agatha Christie-like element of the plot involving an anonymous Internet games man who leads the police on a hunt for information with riddles for clues.
		The society Rankin shows us is as bleak and grim as those described by Scottish novelists Robert Louis Stevenson, James Hogg and George Douglas Brown (the little-known author of the brilliantly grim “The House With Green Shutters”).
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20020110review912.asp (398 words)

	'Fleshmarket Alley,' by Ian Rankin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ian Rankin has said that when he was writing his first John Rebus mystery, he was trying to fashion a modern-day "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
		Detective Inspector Rebus and his colleague, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke, go slogging after clues to both puzzles, and a third to boot -- the disappearance of a teenage girl whose sister had committed suicide after she was raped.
		Rankin is intensely interested in Scottish psychology and sociology, and his cops, barmen, barristers, hairstylists, taxi drivers and stone-cold killers usually ring true, in part due to terse, dead-on dialogue.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05058/462988.stm (522 words)

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