Rebus: The Early Years
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The #1 bestselling series that inspired BBC One s REBUS
Knots & Crosses has Rebus hunting a killer who taunts police with messages made out of knotted string and matchstick crosses. In Hide & Seek, a junkie found dead in an Edinburgh squat is regarded as just another overdose, until Rebus finds it looking more like murder every day. And Tooth & Nail sees Rebus drafted down to London to assist in the hunt for a killer known as the Wolfman, after his penchant for taking bites out of his victims. A sterling chance to catch up on Rebus career. Quite simply, crime-writing of the highest order (Daily Express)
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- ISBN: 9780752837994
- Author: Ian Rankin
- Pub date: 01.08.00
- RRP: $39.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Ian Rankin
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into thirty-six languages and are bestsellers worldwide.Ian 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 2005. In 2004, Ian won America's celebrated Edgar Award for Resurrection Men. He has also been shortlisted for the Anthony Award in the USA, won Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Hull and the Open University.A contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts. Rankin is a number one bestseller in the UK and has received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons.
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