![]() ![]() First, it was a best-seller and the backlist of Rebus novels came into high demand. The 1997 book, Black & Blue, which linked Rebus's case with the unsolved Bible John murders, achieved the double goal of sales and prestige. He was at first upset that bookstores shelved it in the crime fiction section, but he gradually accepted the fact that Rebus was to be the protagonist of a detective series: his goal became to write "on the surface a crime novel that was going to sell loads of copies, but which would be accepted by my peers in academia as serious Scottish fiction." From 1991 through 2007, in fact, Rankin produced a new Rebus novel every year, and there have been seven "late" novels from 2012-22, with a retired Rebus. The Rebus novel series began in 1987 when Ian Rankin published Knots and Crosses his intention was to write a standalone variation on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, set in contemporary Edinburgh. They are considered an important contribution to ' Tartan Noir'. ![]() The novels, centred on Detective Inspector John Rebus, are mostly based in and around Edinburgh. The Inspector Rebus books are a series of detective novels by the Scottish author Sir Ian Rankin. Ian Rankin at the Edinburgh International Book Festival ![]()
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