Rankin is a number one bestseller in the UK and has received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Hull and the Open University.A contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts. He has also been shortlisted for the Anthony Award in the USA, won Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis. From a beautiful city's darkest side to the private sanctums of the upper crust, Rebus is seeking the perfect hiding place for a killer, in Hide and Seek, the second novel in the series from Ian Rankin.At night the summer sky stays light over Edinburgh. In 2004, Ian won America's celebrated Edgar Award for Resurrection Men. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. Inspector Rebus is a series of 29 books written by Ian Rankin. A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the.

His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into thirty-six languages and are bestsellers worldwide.Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. The second Inspector Rebus novel from Britains No.1 crime writer DAILY MIRROR. The story telling and general writing quality is a big step up from Knots & Crosses the official start of the Rebus books. Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. Officially Hide & Seek is the second in the John Rebus collection however it is without doubt the first book to feature the Rebus that we all know and love.

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