Knihy od: Rankin, I.

When a young woman is found unconscious at the wheel of her car, evidence at the scene suggests this was no ordinary crash. Especially when it turns out her boyfriend is the son of the Scottish Justice Minister and neither of them is willing to talk to the police....

A series of seemingly random disappearances - stretching back to the millennium. A mother determined to find the truth. A retired cop desperate to get his old life back . . . It's been some time since Rebus was forced to retire, and now works as a...

Malcolm Fox and his team are back, investigating whether fellow cops covered up for Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct, but what should be a simple job is soon complicated by a brutal murder and a weapon that should not even exist. A trail of...

It's twenty-five years since John Rebus appeared on the scene, and five years since he retired. But 2012 sees his return in STANDING IN ANOTHER MAN'S GRAVE. Not only is Rebus as stubborn and anarchic as ever, but he finds himself in trouble with Rankin's latest creation, Malcolm Fox of...

All the short stories in 'Crimespotting' are brand new and specially commissioned. The brief was deceptively simple - each story must be set in Edinburgh and feature a crime. The results range from hard-boiled police procedural to historical whodunit and from the wildly comic to the spookily supernatural.

'There was a car. They must have been drunk or crazy. It seemed like they came right at me'. Vistors come to Charity's friendly little inn to escape from their ordinary lives. But FBI Agent Roman DeWinter knows something ugly is going on beneath the cosy surface. His mission is...

My dad used to say to me, ´Try to keep a cool head and a warm heart´. At least I think it was my dad. I don´t really remember him. Gravy worked in the graveyard - hence the name. He was having a normal day until his friend Benjy turned...

ONE IN EVERY THREE PEOPLE LIVING IS ACTUALLY DEAD! It is a matter of historical record that during the latter part of World War II, England´s top-secret Ministry of Serendipity enlisted the services of arch-magician Aleister Crowley to create a Homunculus. Why? Well that´s a long story, spanning almost seven...

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict - until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of...

´And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you...?´ ´That sort of thing´ is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. Detective Sergeant...

When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague´s notebook, Rebus must piece together the...

It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing... A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city´s ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving...