5/13/2023 0 Comments Ian rankin noughts and crosses![]() In the 18 Rebus novels written over 20 years,he created an unforgettable character,an honest detective with a fragile sense of sanity,always on the side of angels though stuck often in situations when shite hits the fan. If contemporary crime fiction has grown in popularity and complexity in the face of a dismissive literary establishment over the years,Rankin has been one of its most accomplished practitioners. I said I didnt do it,for sure, he says wrily. ∺ journalist asked me if I wanted to say anything. Rowling,Alexander McCall Smith and Kate Atkinson as neighbours,a strange thing happened: after 60 years,the neighbourhood had its first murder. When he moved into a leafy Edinburgh colony,with J.K. ![]() He has ticked all the boxes and some more: worked as journalist and alcohol researcher,as swineherd and journalist,played in a punk band The Dancing Pigs (you met them in Black and Blue) and written an opera libretto. He was about to become an academic when he decided to take up writing full time. Rankins idea of slowing down is to write one novel in two years he wrote The Complaints in three,maybe four months,and in the early years of his career his rate was two a year. ![]()
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