Ian Rankin
All Books By Ian Rankin
A Heart Full of Headstones
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: James Macpherson
- Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 18, 2022
- Language: English
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4.29(1731 ratings)
In a brand-new series installment,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 might be the last.
John Rebus stands accused: on trial for a crime that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life.
But what drove a good man to cross the line?
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke may well find out. Clarke is tasked with the city’s most explosive case in years, an infamous cop, at the center of decades of misconduct, has gone missing. Finding him will expose not only her superiors, but her mentor John Rebus. And Rebus himself may not have her own interests at heart, as the repayment of a past debt places him in the crosshairs of both crime lords and his police brethren.
One way or another, a reckoning is coming – and John Rebus may be hearing the call for last orders…
A Question of Blood
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: James Macpherson
- Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 24, 2015
- Language: English
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4.07(9987 ratings)
A Song for the Dark Times
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: James Macpherson
- Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 13, 2020
- Language: English
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4.15(5354 ratings)
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.
He wasn’t the best father – the job always came first – but now his daughter needs him more than ever. But is he going as a father or a detective?
As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast – and a small town with big secrets – he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is the one thing he doesn’t want to find…
A thrilling new Rebus novel about crime, punishment, and redemption, from the Edgar Award-winning “genius” of the genre (Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series)
Dead Souls
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 12 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2001
- Language: English
A colleague’s suicide. Pedophiles. A missing child. A serial killer. Driven by instinct and experience, John Rebus searches for connections, against official skepticism. Soldiering through dank, desperate slums and the tony flats of the Scottish elite, Inspector Rebus uncovers a chain of crime, deceit, and hidden sins–knowing it’s really himself he’s trying to save.
... Read moreDoors Open
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: James Macpherson
- Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 15, 2010
- Language: English
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3.51(3663 ratings)
An art auction turns deadly in this daring thriller of double-crossing crime rings, sly sleuths, and carefully planned heists.
Three friends descend upon an art auction in search of some excitement. Mike Mackenzie–retired software mogul, bachelor and fine art enthusiast–wants something that money can’t buy. Fellow art lover Allan Cruickshank is bored with his banking career and burdened by a painful divorce. And Robert Gissing, an art professor, is frustrated that so many paintings stay hidden in corporate boardrooms, safes and private apartments. After the auction–and a chance encounter with crime boss Chib Calloway–Robert and Allan suggest the “liberation” of several paintings from the National Gallery, hoping Mike will dissuade them. Instead, he hopes they are serious.
As enterprising girlfriends, clever detectives, seductive auctioneers and a Hell’s Angel named Hate enter the picture, Ian Rankin creates a highly-charged thriller, a faced-past story of second guesses and double crosses that keep changing the picture, right until the harrowing finish.
Even Dogs in the Wild
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: James Macpherson
- Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 19, 2016
- Language: English
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4.2(9485 ratings)
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. When one of their own is killed, the powers that be want answers fast. But Clarke is puzzled: if Minton died in a robbery as everyone thinks, why is nothing missing from his home? The answer may lie not in what was taken, but in what was left behind at the scene — an ominous note.
Malcolm Fox is feeling useless. Shunned by his colleagues because of his past in the Complaints bureau, he’s been reassigned to a grunt detail, helping a surveillance team — one that trusts him even less than his own boss does — track a notorious Glasgow crime family. Helping Clarke with the Minton case is the only thing that makes Fox feel like a real cop.
Newly minted civilian John Rebus is feeling restless. Being a cop is in his blood and he’s failing miserably at retirement. So when Clarke and Fox ask for his help, Rebus doesn’t need long to consider his options. But before he can get his bearings, a call comes from Rebus’s old nemesis — “Big Ger” Cafferty. Someone just fired a bullet through his front window — and sent him a note identical to Minton’s. The normally unflappable old gangster is on edge, but for the life of him Cafferty can’t figure out who he’s wronged. And the only man he trusts with his life is Rebus.
As the cases collide, it’s up to Clarke, Fox, and Rebus to connect the dots and save their unlikely ally Cafferty, whose past harbors a shocking secret that implicates Minton’s friends in an unspeakable crime. Even Dogs in the Wild reunites crime fiction legend Ian Rankin’s greatest characters in an explosive story exploring the darkest corners of our desires.
Exit Music
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: James Macpherson
- Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 05, 2016
- Language: English
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4.12(13473 ratings)
Rebus discovers that an elite delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, looking to expand its interests. And as Rebus’s investigation gains ground, someone brutally assaults a local gangster with whom he has a long history.
Has Rebus overstepped his bounds for the last time? Only a few days shy of the end to his long, controversial career, will Rebus even make it that far?
In a House of Lies
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: James Macpherson
- Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 31, 2018
- Language: English
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4.11(6373 ratings)
Former Detective John Rebus’ retirement is disrupted once again when skeletal remains are identified as a private investigator who went missing over 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. Rebus’ old friend, Siobhan Clarke is assigned to the case, but neither of them could have predicted what buried secrets the investigation will uncover.
Rebus remembers the original case — a shady land deal — all too well. After the investigation stalled, the family of the missing man complained that there was a police cover-up. As Clarke and her team investigate the cold case murder, she soon learns a different side of her mentor, a side he would prefer to keep in the past.
A gripping story of corruption and consequences, this new novel demonstrates that Rankin and Rebus are still at the top of their game.
Let It Bleed
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: Ian Rankin
- Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 18, 2008
- Language: English
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4.03(11715 ratings)
The seventh in the series of the award winning, best-selling Inspector Rebus crime novels, grips us with first-rate plotting and fierce realism. It’s a bitter winter in Edinburgh, and Rebus has found himself wrapped in a case that provides more questions than answers. Was Lord Provost’s daughter kidnapped, or is she a runaway? Why is a city councillor shredding documents that should have been destroyed years ago? And more importantly, why has Rebus been invited to a pigeon shoot at the home of the Scottish Office’s Permanent secretary? Rebus must contend with the fact that in modern Scotland, some of his enemies may be beyond justice …
... Read moreMeet and Greet
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: Neil Scott-Barbour
- Length: 22 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 19, 2016
- Language: English
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3.46(36 ratings)
From the internationally #1 bestselling novelist comes a tale of small time criminals on a new grift that might cost them everything.
Peppard and Jarman have a new grift that seems simple enough: Go to the airport. Imitate a hired driver by copying a name that they see in the crowd. Collect the passenger before the real drive does, take him to a secluded area and rob them. It seems like a simple plan to make some quick cash for these two amateurs — that is, until they finally meet a pro.
“Meet and Greet” by Ian Rankin is one of 20 short stories within Mulholland Books’s Strand Originals series, featuring thrilling stories by the biggest names in mystery from the Strand Magazine archives. View the full series list at mulhollandbooks.com and read them all!
... Read moreRather Be the Devil
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: James Macpherson
- Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 31, 2017
- Language: English
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4.09(8993 ratings)
As he settles into an uneasy retirement, Rebus has given up his favorite vices. There’s just one habit he can’t shake: he can’t let go of an unsolved case. It’s the only pastime he has left and up until now, it’s the only one that wasn’t threatening to kill him. But when Rebus starts reexamining the facts behind the long-ago murder of a glamorous woman at a luxurious hotel – on the same night a famous rock star and his entourage where also staying there – the past comes roaring back to life with a vengeance.
And as soon as Rebus starts asking questions about the long forgotten crime, a fresh body materializes. His inquiries reunite him with his old pals-Siobhan Clarke and Malcolm Fox-as they attempt to uncover the financial chicanery behind the savage beating of an upstart gangster, a crime that suggests the notorious old school crime boss Big Ger Cafferty has taken to retirement as poorly as Rebus himself.
As he connects the mysteries of the past to the those of the present, Rebus learns – the hard way – that he’s not the only one with an insatiable curiosity about what happened in that hotel room forty years ago, and that someone will stop at nothing to ensure that the crime remains ancient history.
A twisted tale of power, corruption, and bitter rivalries in the dark heart of Edinburgh, Rather Be the Devil showcases Rankin and Rebus at their unstoppable best.
Resurrection Men
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: James Macpherson
- Length: 14 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 24, 2015
- Language: English
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4.04(10355 ratings)
When Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke discovers that her investigation of an art dealer’s murder is tied to Rebus’s inquiry, the two-protege and mentor-join forces. Soon they find themselves in the midst of an even bigger scandal than they had imagined-a plot with conspirators in every corner of Scotland and deadly implications about their colleagues.
With the brilliant eye for character and place that earned him the name “the Dickens of Edinburgh,” Ian Rankin delivers a page-turning novel of intricate suspense.
Saints of the Shadow Bible
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: James Macpherson
- Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 14, 2014
- Language: English
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4.14(7392 ratings)
Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. He is investigating a car accident when news arrives that a case from 30 years ago is being reopened. Rebus’s team from those days is suspected of helping a murderer escape justice to further their own ends.
Malcolm Fox, in what will be his last case as an internal affairs cop, is tasked with finding out the truth. Past and present are about to collide in shocking and murderous fashion. What does Rebus have to hide? And whose side is he really on? His colleagues back then called themselves “The Saints,” and swore a bond on something called the Shadow Bible. But times have changed and the crimes of the past may not stay hidden much longer — and may also play a role in the present, as Scotland gears up for a referendum on independence.
Allegiances are being formed, enemies made, and huge questions asked. Who are the saints and who the sinners? And can the one ever become the other?
Set in Darkness
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: Ian Rankin
- Length: 16 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 03, 2008
- Language: English
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4.04(8757 ratings)
For the first time in 300 years, Scotland has its own Parliament, and to go with it, its own newly developed Parliament buildings. Detective Inspector John Rebus views the whole thing through a rather jaundiced eye, given that he’s been chosen to liaise with the restructuring of the whole building. At first he thinks that the building’s murky past may just be a break from the tedium–not every building has stories of a mad earl roasting a servant to death, after all–but when he is shown the legendary site, it’s to discover a rather more recent body occupying the same place. As if that’s not enough, a prospective Member of Parliament is found dead a few days later on the same site. As always, it’s up to Rebus to find out what’s going on …
... Read moreStanding in Another Man’s Grave
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: James Macpherson
- Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 15, 2013
- Language: English
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4.07(11651 ratings)
For the last decade, Nina Hazlitt has been ready to hear the worst about her daughter’s disappearance. But with no sightings, no body, and no suspect, the police investigation ground to a halt long ago, and Nina’s pleas to the cold case department have led her nowhere.
Until she meets the newest member of the team: former Detective John Rebus.
Rebus has never shied away from lost causes – one of the many ways he managed to antagonize his bosses when he was on the force. Now he’s back as a retired civilian, reviewing abandoned files. Necessary work, but it’s not exactly scratching the itch he feels to be in the heart of the action.
Two more women have gone missing from the same road where Sally Hazlitt was last seen. Unlike his skeptical colleagues, Rebus can sense a connection – but pursuing it leads him into the crosshairs of adversaries both old and new.
Rebus may have missed the thrill of the hunt, but he’s up against a powerful enemy who’s got even less to lose.
On the twentieth anniversary of Ian Rankin’s first American publication comes a novel bursting with the vitality and suspense that made its author one of crime fiction’s most dazzling stars. Standing in Another Man’s Grave is the triumphant return of John Rebus, and a riveting story of sin, redemption, and revenge.
Strip Jack
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: Ian Rankin
- Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 29, 2011
- Language: English
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3.88(10681 ratings)
Gold Dagger-winner and best-selling author in the United Kingdom, Ian Rankin crafts absorbing crime novels with solidly drawn characters and first-rate plotting. In Strip Jack, he portrays a shocking murder investigation that exposes the sordid side of Edinburgh politics and society. Detective John Rebus suspects a set-up when a respected Member of Parliament is caught in a police raid on a brothel-and his flamboyant wife suddenly disappears. After the woman’s badly beaten body shows up, it becomes Rebus’ job to find the killer. Is the MP really self-destructing as circumstances suggest? Or is a bitter enemy out to get him? Suddenly Rebus finds himself facing off with a cunning killer who holds all the cards. Narrator Samuel Gillies’ well-paced performance underscores all the tension in this intriguing read.
... Read moreThe Beat Goes On
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: James Macpherson
- Length: 20 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 11, 2015
- Language: English
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4.12(1391 ratings)
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. The Beat Goes On collects all of Ian Rankin’s Rebus short stories for the first time, including two never-before published tales written specifically for this collection.
From his beginnings as a young Detective Constable in Dead and Buried right up to his dramatic, but not quite final, retirement in The Very Last Drop, Rebus shines in these stories, confirming his status as one of crime fiction’s most compelling, brilliant, and unforgettable characters. In these gripping, fast-paced tales, the legendary Scottish detective investigates the sinister cases that are his specialty, including a gruesome student death, the brutal murder of a woman at the crux of a love triangle, an audacious jewel heist, suspicious happenings at a nursing home, and an ominous email that brings a family’s darkest secrets to light.
The Beat Goes On is the ultimate Ian Rankin treasure trove — a must-have book for crime fiction aficionados and a superb introduction for anyone looking to experience DI John Rebus, and the dark, twist-filled crimes he investigates.
The Complaints
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 07, 2011
- Language: English
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3.87(11606 ratings)
Dirty cops, moral dilemmas, and personal turmoil set the stage for this brilliant crime novel about what happens when a murder takes place too close to home.
Nobody likes The Complaints–they’re the cops who investigate other cops. It’s a department known within the force as The Dark Side, and it’s where Malcolm Fox works. He’s a serious man with a father in a nursing home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship, frustrating problems about which he cannot seem to do anything.
Then the reluctant Fox is given a new case. There’s a cop named Jamie Breck, and he’s dirty. The problem is, no one can prove it. As Fox takes on the job, he learns that there’s more to Breck than anyone thinks–dangerous knowledge, especially when a vicious murder takes place far too close to home.
In The Complaints, Rankin proves again why he is one of the world’s most beloved and bestselling crime writers, mixing unstoppable pacing with the deeper question of who decides right from wrong.
The Falls
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: Ian Rankin
- Length: 16 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 09, 2008
- Language: English
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4.04(10934 ratings)
A missing student, a six inch coffin containing a wooden doll, and mysterious role-playing games on the Internet are the intriguing elements of the latest case to challenge Inspector Rebus. The missing student comes from an influential family, and Rebus begins to get a bad feeling about the case in Warsaw. Whilst Rebus follows up a link with the distant past, his DC, Siobhan Clarke tackles the Internet challenges set by the mysterious Quizmaster.
... Read moreThe Impossible Dead
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 21, 2011
- Language: English
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3.97(7712 ratings)
A major inquiry into a neighboring police force sees Malcolm Fox and his colleagues cast adrift, unsure of territory, protocol, or who they can trust. An entire station-house looks to have been compromised, but as Fox digs deeper he finds the trail leads him back in time to the suicide of a prominent politician and activist. There are secrets buried in the past, and reputations on the line.
In his newest pulse-pounding thriller, Ian Rankin holds up a mirror to an age of fear and paranoia, and shows us something of our own lives reflected there.
The Naming of the Dead
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: James Macpherson
- Length: 14 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 05, 2016
- Language: English
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4.02(8938 ratings)
Tooth and Nail
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: Ian Rankin
- Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 25, 2008
- Language: English
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3.92(13186 ratings)
John Rebus is on a train from Edinburgh to London, where he has been drafted for his expertise in the modus operandi of serial killers. The Wolfman could be his toughest case yet–a serial killer named by the press due to a terrifying trademark of taking a bite from each victim. His Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn’t too happy at yet another interference in the investigation–especially from an upstart jock hounding him at every turn. So when Rebus is offered a psychological profile of the murderer by an attractive lady psychologist, he is happy to accept. But in finding an ally, he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack.
... Read moreWatchman
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: John Lee
- Length: 8 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
Miles Flint is a government spy who has been making some serious mistakes. His last assignment led to the death of a foreign official in London, and after getting too close to his current subject, he wound up in police custody. But something is wrong at the agency that has nothing to do with Miles’s errors. Why did his last suspect know more about Miles’s assignment than Miles did? Why have so many operatives recently resigned? Has the agency hired someone to watch him?
Despite the Director’s assurances, Miles begins his own internal investigation, to the dismay of his colleagues and even his wife. Then Miles is sent to Belfast to oversee the arrest of two suspected terrorists, a supposedly routine mission that only strengthens his darkest suspicions. Has the Director issued Miles his final assignment?
Determined to discover the truth, Miles enters a dangerous world he normally only observes–even as it threatens his life at every turn. With the riveting suspense and razor-sharp dialogue that have made him an internationally renowned bestseller, Ian Rankin examines an ordinary man forced into extraordinary circumstances, and proves why he “just keeps getting better and better” (Michele Ross, Cleveland Plain Dealer ).
... Read moreWestwind
- By: Ian Rankin
- Narrator: Ian Rankin
- Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 07, 2020
- Language: English
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3.4(979 ratings)
In Europe, the Americans are pulling out their troops in a tide of isolationism. Britain, torn between loyalties to America and the continent, is caught in the middle. Across the pond, a space shuttle crashes on landing, killing all but one of the crew on board: A British citizen named Mike Dreyfuss, who will become vilified by the US press and protesters.
Halfway across the world, at English ground control headquarters, Martin Hepton watches with dismay as they lose contact with the most advanced satellite in Europe. When a colleague who suspects something strange disappears, Hepton realizes there is much more at stake than anyone knows — and many more people on his trail than he can possibly evade . . .