Ian Rankin
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born
April 28, 1960
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male
place of birth
Cardenden, Scotland, The United Kingdom
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Literature & Fiction
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Knots And Crosses (Inspector Rebus, Book 1) by Ian Rankin avg rating 3.67 — 911 ratings — published 1987 25 editions |
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Hide and Seek (An Inspector Rebus Novel) by Ian Rankin avg rating 3.75 — 637 ratings — published 1991 17 editions |
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Black and Blue (An Inspector Rebus Novel) by Ian Rankin avg rating 3.90 — 603 ratings — published 1997 20 editions |
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Resurrection Men (Inspector Rebus Series, Book 13) by Ian Rankin avg rating 3.95 — 584 ratings — published 2002 20 editions |
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The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin avg rating 3.89 — 562 ratings — published 2004 19 editions |
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The Falls by Ian Rankin avg rating 3.90 — 552 ratings — published 2001 22 editions |
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Exit Music by Ian Rankin avg rating 3.95 — 521 ratings — published 2007 15 editions |
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Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin avg rating 3.84 — 520 ratings — published 2004 18 editions |
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Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin avg rating 3.72 — 527 ratings — published 1992 13 editions |
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Let It Bleed (An Inspector Rebus Novel) by Ian Rankin avg rating 3.89 — 444 ratings — published 1995 19 editions |
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""Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress.
"Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started." "
— Ian Rankin (Knots and Crosses)
"Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started." "
— Ian Rankin (Knots and Crosses)
"Rebus drank his coffee and felt his head spin. He was feeling like the detective in a cheap thriller, and wished that he could turn to the last page and stop all his confusion, all the death and the madness and the spinning in his ears. "
— Ian Rankin (Knots and Crosses)
— Ian Rankin (Knots and Crosses)
"His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience -- the experience of reading someone else's thoughts -- over real life. "
— Ian Rankin (Knots and Crosses)
— Ian Rankin (Knots and Crosses)
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