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A Heart Full of Headstones is the 24th installment in the Inspector Rebus series written by Ian Rankin. The title comes from the song "Single Father" by Jackie Leven, four lines of which are quoted on the last page of the novel. [1] The novel is set during the period when COVID-19 is a threat but lockdown has ended, probably in 2022. [2]
Ian Rankin at IMDb; Guardian Books profile, with links to further articles; Ian Rankin at Edinburgh Central Library, Oct 2010 (video interview in several parts) CNN interview with Ian Rankin; 2011 radio interview at The Bat Segundo Show (1 hour) Two BooksfromScotland.com interviews with Ian Rankin; Radio Interview on RadioNZ's Nine to Noon Show ...
Ian Rankin at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The Inspector Rebus books are a series of detective novels by the Scottish author Sir Ian Rankin. The novels, centred on Detective Inspector John Rebus, are mostly based in and around Edinburgh. They are considered an important contribution to 'Tartan Noir'.
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The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Short Stories is an anthology of all the Inspector Rebus short stories (30) by Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin, plus the novella Death Is Not the End; though the Rebus short story "Well Shot" published in 2nd Culprit (1993) is not included. It is Rankin's third collection of short stories.
In the Exile on Princes Street foreword to Rebus: The Early Years, Rankin says this was his second attempt at updating Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde into then-modern Edinburgh ("one reviewer 'got it'"), and with this book he began to like Rebus as a character and thought he could use him as a recurring mouthpiece for stories about his views on Scotland.
The action of The Complaints takes place on February 3-24, 2009, with the days specified by the book's sections. Dividing a larger number of chapters into groupings under the date and day of the week is a practice Rankin used in the two previous Rebus novels, The Naming of the Dead (July 1-9, 2005, the week of the real-life G8 Summit in Edinburgh) and Exit Music (November 15-27, 2006, roughly ...
Dark Entries is a 2009 original graphic novel written by Ian Rankin. The author's earliest work in the comic field, it was one of two books to launch Vertigo's new sub-imprint [1] Vertigo Crime, along with Brian Azzarello's Filthy Rich. [2] Italian artist Werther Dell'Edera created the interior art and Lee Bermejo painted the cover for the book ...