Ian Rankin

New York Times bestselling author Ian Rankin returns to his legendary detective—it’s not the first time Rebus has taken the law into his own hands, though it may be the last.

John Rebus is Edinburgh’s most famous fictional detective – a hard-drinking, music-loving maverick with a defiant disregard for authority and a stubborn determination to get to the truth.

A missing private investigator is found locked in a car hidden deep in the woods. Worse still - both for his family and the police - the body was in an area that had already been searched 10 years ago....

John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals behind bars. Now, he’s going to join them…

Rebus' retirement is disrupted once again when skeletal remains are identified as a private investigator who went missing more than a decade earlier. The remains, found in a rusted car in the East Lothian woods, not far from Edinburgh, quickly turn into a cold-case murder investigation....

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops....

When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire....

John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars. Now, he's going to join them... In this tense, gripping game of cat and mouse, 'The King of Crime' (Express) returns to his much-loved creation, the inimitable John Rebus.

Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is feeling the heat. She's investigating the death of a senior government prosecutor, David Minton, who has friends in high places....

Inspector John Rebus immediately suspects there is more to the case than meets the eye....

When political heavyweights try to get Detective Inspector John Rebus to stop an investigation, he follows the case as it moves from embezzlement to murder to conspiracy....

Drugs. Extortion. Slavery. Organized crime is fighting for a hold on John Rebus's peaceful Scotland....

'And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you....

A murdered oil rig worker. A copycat serial killer dubbed, “Johnny Bible.” And a reopened investigation that doesn’t bode well for Detective John Rebus or his mentor....

Brilliant, irascible, and frequently frustrating to both his friends and his long-suffering bosses, John Rebus has made the dark places of Edinburgh his home for over two decades....

When his daughter, Samantha, calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days. Rebus fears the worst - and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect....

Its 25 years since John Rebus appeared on the scene, and 5 years since he retired. But 2012 sees his return in Standing in Another Man’s Grave....

For the first time in 300 years, Scotland has its own Parliament and its own newly developed Parliament buildings - complete with a prospective Member of Parliament who is found dead....

The leaders of the free world descend on Scotland for an international conference, and every cop in the country is needed for front-line duty - except one....

Detective John Rebus' city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders…and he's tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood....