Bücher von Ian Rankin

A delicious, and somewhat drunken, dinner party segues into a murder mystery game created by the hostess. However, the parlour game may hold clues about the dark truths hiding just under the surface of this genteel gathering...As suspects, clues and red herrings are sifted - it seems one of the guests has an unfair advantage: John Rebus, an ex-detective who used to do this for a living. But is he playing another game, one to which only he knows the rules, that will soon be revealed? As the tension rises, one by one, all their secrets will come out - and there is a shocking discovery that awaits them all...

From the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin, comes one of the must-read books of the year: A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES.

The ninth Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES.'Masterly' SUNDAY TIMES 'Ian Rankin is a genius' Lee ChildDI Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork but an escalating dispute between the upstart Tommy Telford and Big Ger Cafferty's gang gives Rebus an escape clause. Telford is known to have close links with a Chechen gangster bringing refugees into Britain as prostitutes. When Rebus takes under his wing a distraught Bosnian call girl, it gives him a personal reason to make sure Telford goes back to Paisley and pronto. Then Rebus's daughter is the victim of an all too professional hit-and-run and Rebus knows that there is now nothing he won't do to bring down prime suspect Tommy Telford - even if it means cutting a deal with the devil.

REBUS IS BACK. The superb No.1 bestseller from 'Britain's best crime novelist' EXPRESS. Unabridged edition read by James Macpherson

The fifteenth Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES'It's another Rebus novel you can't put down, and Rankin at his most powerful' CHOICE

The eleventh Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES'Ian Rankin is a genius' Lee Child

The sixth Inspector Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES. 'An outstanding creation' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars. Now, he's joined them... As new allies and old enemies circle, and the days and nights bleed into each other, even the legendary detective struggles to keep his head. That is, until a murder at midnight in a locked cell presents a new mystery. They say old habits die hard... However, this is a case where the prisoners and the guards are all suspects, and everyone has something to hide. With no badge, no authority and no safety net, Rebus walks a tightrope - with his life on the line. But how do you find a killer in a place full of them?

Manchmal muss man Grenzen überschreiten, um der Gerechtigkeit Genüge zu tun ... John Rebus ist angeklagt - für ein Verbrechen, das ihn für den Rest seines Lebens hinter Gitter bringen könnte. Es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass der legendäre Ermittler das Gesetz in die eigene Hand nimmt, aber es könnte das letzte Mal gewesen sein. Während Rebus vor Gericht steht, ermittelt seine alte Freundin Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke in Edinburghs brisantestem Fall seit Jahren: Ein korrupter Polizist wird vermisst. Er hatte damit gedroht, Informationen zu offenbaren, die den gesamten Polizeiapparat der Stadt in den Abgrund reißen könnten. Und auch in dieser Sache scheinen alle Wege zu Rebus zu führen ...

Der Anwalt Bobby Carter wird tot in einer Gasse hinter einem Pub aufgefunden, der unter dem Schutz eines lokalen Gangsterbosses steht. Damit gerät das fragile Gleichgewicht, das Glasgow seit Monaten zu einer relativ sicheren Stadt macht, ins Wanken. Neben einer verzweifelten Familie hinterlässt Carter vor allem viele Feinde. Aber wer profitiert wirklich von seinem Tod? Ermittler Jack Laidlaw hat einen sechsten Sinn für die Straße und bezweifelt, dass hinter dem Mord rivalisierende Gangs stecken. Dafür muss er aber den wahren Mörder von Bobby Carter finden - und zwar bevor es zu offenen Straßenschlachten in Glasgow kommt ... »Das Dunkle bleibt« ist ein von Ian Rankin vollendetes Laidlaw-Manuskript aus McIlvanneys Nachlass und ein literarisches Ereignis.

Manchmal muss man Grenzen überschreiten, um der Gerechtigkeit Genüge zu tun ... John Rebus ist angeklagt - für ein Verbrechen, das ihn für den Rest seines Lebens hinter Gitter bringen könnte. Es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass der legendäre Ermittler das Gesetz in die eigene Hand nimmt, aber es könnte das letzte Mal gewesen sein. Während Rebus vor Gericht steht, ermittelt seine alte Freundin Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke in Edinburghs brisantestem Fall seit Jahren: Ein korrupter Polizist wird vermisst. Er hatte damit gedroht, Informationen zu offenbaren, die den gesamten Polizeiapparat der Stadt in den Abgrund reißen könnten. Und auch in dieser Sache scheinen alle Wege zu Rebus zu führen ...

Die Familie kommt immer an erster Stelle. Sogar vor der Wahrheit ... Mitten in der Nacht erhält John Rebus einen Anruf seiner Tochter Samantha. Ihr Ehemann Keith ist verschwunden. Völlig aufgelöst bittet sie ihren Vater um Hilfe. Rebus vermutet das Schlimmste, denn aus langjähriger Polizeiarbeit weiß er: Falls Keith etwas zugestoßen sein sollte, wird der erste Verdacht auf Samantha fallen. Besorgt macht Rebus sich auf in die kleine schottische Küstenstadt Naver. Doch ein guter Polizist und ein guter Vater zu sein, gestaltet sich schwieriger als erwartet, und bald muss sich der rastlose Ermittler aus Edinburgh fragen: Könnte das der erste Fall seiner Karriere sein, bei dem die Wahrheit besser nicht ans Licht käme?

A Good Hanging contains twelve remarkable, gritty stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his home city of Edinburgh, as only Ian Rankin can portray it: not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims--blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It's a city like any other, a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accidents, and long-hidden jealousy, and a city in which criminal minds find it all too easy to fade into the shadows. As dedicated readers of the series well know, nobody is better equipped to delve into Edinburgh's back alleys and smoky pubs than Rebus, and no one better able to illuminate his world than Ian Rankin.

On the eve of the first Scottish parliament in three hundred years, Edinburgh is a city rife with political passions and expectations. Queensbury House, the home of Scotland's new rulers, falls in the middle of John Rebus' turf, keeping him busy with ceremonial tasks. That quickly changes, however, when a long-dead body is discovered in a Queensbury House fireplace, a homeless man throws himself off a bridge - leaving behind a suitcase full of cash - and an up-and-coming politician is found murdered. The links between the three deaths lead Rebus to a confrontation with one of Edinburgh's most notorious criminals, a man he thought he'd put in jail for life. Someone's going to make a lot of money out of Scotland's independence - and, as Inspector Rebus knows all too well, where there's big money at stake, darkness gathers.Set in Darkness is another chilling and intelligent crime novel from master of the genre Ian Rankin.

Ian Rankin's John Rebus, arguably the most realistic detective in crime fiction, is a brilliant but troubled man. When a young woman goes missing near his native Edinburgh, Scotland, Rebus finds himself just one small cog in the huge wheel of an inquiry set in motion by her powerfully rich father. Struggling to deal with both his own often-terrifying inner demons as well as the monstrous bureaucracy of the investigative team, Rebus finds himself drawn again and again into the case, desperately searching for the girl's salvation, as well as his own. In time Rebus uncovers two leads: one, a carved wooden doll stuffed tightly into a tiny casket, and the other the missing girl's possible involvement in a dark, disturbing Internet-based role-playing game. He enlists the help of the tech-savvy DC Siobhan Clarke, who is young enough to know her way around the net, but who may not be old and wise enough to avoid potentially deadly pitfalls and traps. Meanwhile, Rebus tracks down stories of similar caskets and dolls turning up in the area deep into Edinburgh's past, some stretching back to a time when body-snatchers turned into brutal killers.As Rebus and Clarke delve deeper and deeper into these perilous and obscure worlds, ancient and modern evils begin to converge and soon Rebus finds he's besieged by an impenetrable mass of secrets, lies, and deadly deceit that only he can make sense of. In The Falls, a brilliant addition to an award-winning series, both John Rebus and his creator, Ian Rankin, are at the top of their intense and satisfying form.

A chilling glimpse into the darkest extremes of human cruelty, The Hanging Garden is a page-turning literary thriller. This ninth entry in Ian Rankin's award-winning series confirms his reputation as a writer of rare and lasting gifts.Drugs. Extortion. Slavery. Organized crime is fighting for a hold on Inspector John Rebus's peaceful Scotland. And when Rebus rescues a young Bosnian girl forced into prostitution, he breaks a policeman's golden rule to never get personally involved in a case. Add to that the hunt for an elderly Nazi accused of slaughtering an entire French village, and Rebus wonders just how evil humans can be. Until his own daughter is mortally injured as a gangland warning for him to back off. Then even a dedicated cop like Rebus might make a deal with the devil to find the culprit. Not for justice. For revenge.

Bible John killed three women, and took three souvenirs. Johnny Bible killed to steal his namesake's glory. Oilman Allan Mitchelson died for his principles. And convict Lenny Spaven died just to prove a point. "Bible John" terrorized Glasgow in the sixties and seventies, murdering three women he met in a local ballroom--and he was never caught. Now a copycat is at work. Nicknamed "Bible Johnny" by the media, he is a new menace with violent ambitions. The Bible Johnny case would be perfect for Inspector John Rebus, but after a run-in with a crooked senior officer, he's been shunted aside to one of Edinburgh's toughest suburbs, where he investigates the murder of an off-duty oilman. His investigation takes him north to the oil rigs of Aberdeen, where he meets the Bible Johnny media circus head-on. Suddenly caught in the glare of the television cameras and in the middle of more than one investigation, Rebus must proceed with caution: One mistake could mean an unpleasant and not particularly speedy death, or, worse still, losing his job. Written with Ian Rankin's signature wit, style and intricacy, Black and Blue is a novel of uncommon and unforgettable intrigue.

Gregor Jack has it all: young, wealthy, and charming, he's a highly respected member of Parliament, with a beautiful wife--and a closet bursting with skeletons. When he's caught in a police raid on an Edinburgh brothel, his house of cards begins to topple. Enter Detective John Rebus: he smells a set-up. When Jack's flamboyant wife Elizabeth disappears, Rebus uncovers a full-house of orgies, drunken parties, an incestuous "Pack" of deceitful chums...and ultimately Elizabeth's badly beaten body. Now Rebus is on a new quest--to find a killer who holds all the cards. Strip Jack is a stellar entry in Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series, which The New York Times calls "A superior series."

Knots and Crosses introduces gifted mystery novelist Ian Rankin, a fascinating locale and the most compellingly complex detective hero at work today.Inspector John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders...and he's tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. Once John Rebus served in Britain's elite SAS. Now he's an Edinburgh cop who hides from his memories, misses promotions and ignores a series of crank letters. But as the ghoulish killings mount and the tabloid headlines scream, Rebus cannot stop the feverish shrieks from within his own mind. Because he isn't just one cop trying to catch a killer, he's the man who's got all the pieces to the puzzle....

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. But in a shadowy, crumbling housing development, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his bruised body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship. Inspector Rebus could call the death and accident--but won't. Instead, he tracks down a violent-tempered young woman who knew the dead boy and heard him cry out his terrifying last words: "Hide! Hide!" Now, with the help of a bright, conflicted young detective, Rebus is following the girl through a brutal world of bad deals, bad dope and bad company.

Über zehn Jahre nach Stuart Blooms Verschwinden wird die Leiche des Privatdetektivs in einem Wald bei Edinburgh gefunden. Alles weist darauf hin, dass bei den damaligen Ermittlungen nicht alles mit rechten Dingen zuging. Und so soll DI Siobhan Clarke nicht nur den Mord aufklären, sondern auch Untersuchungen in den eigenen Reihen anstellen. Bald wird klar, dass fast jeder der Beteiligten - Polizisten, Verdächtige, Angehörige - etwas zu verbergen hat. Und alle jede Menge zu verlieren. Ein Mann scheint besonders viel über die Zusammenhänge zu wissen: John Rebus, Detectiv Inspector a.D. Gerade ihm könnte die Wahrheit gewaltigen Schaden zufügen ...

Bei einem Dinner im »Caledonian« wird Rebus an einen lange zurückliegenden Mord erinnert: Eine Bankiersgattin wollte in dem Luxushotel einen Liebhaber empfangen - am nächsten Morgen war sie tot, der Täter wurde nie gefasst. Während Rebus sich erneut in dem alten Fall vergräbt, gerät das kriminelle Machtgefüge in Edinburgh gefährlich ins Wanken: Darryl Christie, eine aufstrebende Reviergröße, wird brutal überfallen - und im Hintergrund scheint Ex-Gangsterboss Big »Ger« Cafferty die Fäden zu ziehen. Eine Entwicklung, die Rebus gar nicht recht sein kann. Zumal die erste Leiche in diesem fatalen Kräftemessen nicht lange auf sich warten lässt ...

John Rebus ist zurück im aktiven Polizeidienst. Einziger Wermutstropfen: degradiert zum Detective Sergeant muss er nun seiner ehemaligen Untergebenen Siobhan Clarke zuarbeiten. Die beiden untersuchen gerade einen Autounfall, als bekannt wird, dass die Staatsanwaltschaft einen dreißig Jahre zurückliegenden Fall neu aufrollen will. Damals war Rebus' Team beschuldigt worden, Beweise in einem Mordfall manipuliert zu haben. Der mutmaßliche Mörder, ein Polizeispitzel, kam ungestraft davon. Mit den internen Ermittlungen beauftragt ist ausgerechnet Malcolm Fox, der Rebus nicht über den Weg traut und doch auf dessen Hilfe angewiesen ist. Rebus muss sich entscheiden - zwischen dem Gesetz und den Freunden von damals, die langsam nervös werden ...

Sein neuer Arbeitsplatz: die "Cold Case"-Abteilung in Edinburgh. Doch so leicht lässt sich John Rebus, Detective Inspector a.D., nicht ausmustern. Ein Mädchen aus Edinburgh wird vermisst. Als sich eine Verbindung zwischen dem aktuellen Fall und mehreren Uralt-Vermisstenfällen andeutet, benötigt Rebus für seine Ermittlungen die Hilfe seiner ehemaligen Kollegin Siobhan Clarke. Durch seine unorthodoxen Methoden gefährdet er prompt ihre Karriere. Doch dann bestätigt ein schockierender Fund die schlimmsten Befürchtungen ...

A masterclass in cat-and-mouse espionage suspense - and the last lost novel - from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin...

Weary, wary, hard-drinking Detective John Rebus returns in author Ian Rankin's internationally acclaimed, award-winning series. As complex and unpredictable as the brooding mists that envelop his Edinburgh beat, Rebus is ever resourceful and determined--but this time, vulnerable and challenged as never before, with complications in his personal life, and events that shake him to the depths of his being.... A colleague's suicide. Pedophiles. A missing child. A serial killer. You never know your luck, muses Rebus. Driven by instinct and experience, he searches for connections, against official skepticism. But at night, unsoothed by whiskey, Rebus faces his ghosts--and the prospect of his daughter's possibly permanent paralysis. Soldiering through dank, desperate slums and the tony flats of the Scottish chic, Rebus uncovers a chain of crime, deceit, and hidden sins--knowing it's himself he's really trying to save.... Ian Rankin's Dead Souls is "e;crime writing of the highest order"e; (Daily Express).