Retirement didn't agree with John Rebus. For more than 20 years, Edgar Award winner Ian Rankin's jazz-loving, chain-smoking Scottish inspector fought with his superiors almost as much as he did with ...

Fox works for the Complaints, the division within the police force that investigates other cops. He views Rebus as a vestige of the bad old days, a representative of all that modern, reformed policing ...

I’ll admit it: I’m a sucker for Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh-based detective John Rebus. I love his grumpiness as much as I love the way he latches on to solving a crime, a kind of cross between a detective ...

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Ian Rankin has sold more than 20 million books, most centred on Edinburgh detective John Rebus. After pushing the cranky, alcohol- and music-dependent cop into retirement in 2007’s Exit Music, when ...

Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin. Orion, 415 pp., £16.99, 17 February, 0 75282 129 6 Buy it at Bol According to the OED, a 'rebus' is 'an enigmatic representation of a name, word or phrase by figures, ...