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Inspector Rebus
Series of detective novels by Ian Rankin
This article is about the novels. For the character, see John Rebus. For the TV adaptations, see Rebus (ITV series).
The Inspector Rebus books are a series of detective novels by the Scottish author Sir Ian Rankin. The novels, centred on Detective InspectorJohn Rebus, are mostly based in and around Edinburgh. They are considered an important contribution to 'Tartan Noir'.
Overview
[edit]Genre and Literary Influences
[edit]The Rebus novel series began in when Ian Rankin published Knots and Crosses; his intention was to write a standalone variation on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, set in contemporary Edinburgh.[1] He was at first upset that bookshops shelved it in the crime fiction section, but he gradually accepted the fact that Rebus was to be the protagonist of a detective series: his goal became to write "on the surface a crime novel that was going to sell loads of copies, but which would be accepted by my peers in academia as serious Scottish fiction."[2] From through , in fact, Rankin produced a new Rebus novel every year, and there have been seven "late" novels from –22, with a retired Rebus. The book, Black & Blue, which linked Rebu
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Ian Rankin is a crime writer.
I am mostly interested in what the crime tells us about ourselves and the society we live in. So it’s not a game I’m playing with the reader; I’m approaching things as a straight novelist&#;For me a good crime novel shows the world in a way which makes me think about it as I’ve not thought about it before. in Mail Online.
Rankin has created two series. The inspector Malcolm Fox series of which there are two novels: The Complaints and The Impossible Dead.
Of The Detective inspector Rubus series there are too many books to mention. To date almost twenty books. He&#;s also written a non-fiction on Rubus&#;s Scotland, short stories, other novels and three mystery books under the pen name Jack Harvey.
Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers&#; Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in In , Ian won America&#;s celebrated Edgar Award for&#;Resurrection Men&#;. He has also been shortlisted for the Edgar and Anthony Awards in the USA, and won Denmark&#;s Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis.
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