At the start of Rankin's overly complex 18th book to feature Edinburgh's Insp. John Rebus (after 2005's Fleshmarket Alley), Ben Webster, a Scottish delegate to the Group of Eight summit, dies ...

Rebus, the upcoming Viaplay adaptation of Sir Ian Rankin's hugely popular Inspector Rebus novels, has cast Outlander star Richard Rankin (no relation to the author). Rankin will play a younger Rebus ...

Ian Rankin’s immensely popular detective, Inspector John Rebus, is set for a major reimagining in the form of a six-part series from streamer Viaplay and Eleventh Hour Films. Set in contemporary ...

The 14th novel to feature the always compelling (and, as his name suggests, perpetually puzzling) John Rebus begins with what seems to be a uniquely American crime: a madman enters a school and starts ...

Eleventh Hour Films have scooped up the rights to Ian Rankin's character Inspector Rebus. They've tapped '71 and Black Watch writer Gregory Burke to do the contemporary adaptation. Rankin debuted ...

John Rebus is not one of those coppers who is content to spend his time staring at a screen, sifting JK Rowling’s tweets for offensive content. Before the opening credits have rolled on the first ...

Ian Rankin, a best-selling author of thrillers, sets his latest Inspector Rebus novel in Scotland during the Group of Eight summit for world leaders and industrialists that was held there in 2005. But ...

Edinburgh police inspector John Rebus, the star of a long-running series by Ian Rankin, is now retired and suffering from a pulmonary disease that necessitates his move to a ground-floor flat where he ...

Viaplay has found its Inspector Rebus and author Sir Ian Rankin is keeping it in the name. Outlander star Richard Rankin – no relation to the source material’s scribe – will play the lead in the ...

Some Scottish crime writers are apparently incapable of closing the books on their most famous characters. No, this isn’t about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who famously resurrected Sherlock Holmes after ...

In these 30 tales and a novella, Ian Rankin has fun with Detective Inspector John Rebus of Edinburgh, one of the great literary crime solvers of our time. The brooding Rebus of the dark novels never ...