Blood Hunt - Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin has recently hit the big time; his series of books about a rather terse and grumpy Scottish police inspector, Rebus, was adapted for TV (although slightly missing the brooding atmosphere of the books) and since then sales of Rankin's work have gone through the roof. Rankin's Rebus books were always critically well thought of and had always sold fairly well, but now Rankin is big business. Hence, I have a feeling that a marketing man came up with the bright idea ...  Read the complete review

Ian Rankin has recently hit the big time; his series of books about a rather terse and grumpy Scottish police inspector, Rebus, was adapted for TV (although slightly missing the brooding atmosphere of the books) and since then sales of Rankin's work have gone through the roof. Rankin's Rebus books were always critically well thought of and had always sold fairly well, but now Rankin is big business. Hence, I have a feeling that a marketing man came up with the bright idea of re-releasing some of Rankin's earlier work (when he wrote as Jack Harvey and was experimenting with the Rebus books under his own name) under the writers proper name, so we have the ...  Read the complete review