Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin is a Scottish crime novelist, born on 28 April 1960 in Cardenden, Fife. He studied English literature at the University of Edinburgh and published his first novel, “The Flood”, in 1986. The following year “Knots and Crosses” introduced Detective Inspector John Rebus of the Edinburgh police, a series that now runs to some twenty-five novels and gave its name to the Scottish strand of crime writing known as tartan noir. He also wrote three thrillers as Jack Harvey (1993-1995) and a second series around the investigator Malcolm Fox, opened by “The Complaints” (2009). He won the CWA Gold Dagger for “Black and Blue” (1997), the Edgar Award for “Resurrection Men” (2004) and the CWA Diamond Dagger in 2005. Appointed OBE in 2002, he was knighted in 2022. The Rebus novels were adapted for ITV from 2000 and again for the BBC in 2024.