John Rebus is not one of those coppers who is content to spend his time staring at a screen, sifting JK Rowling’s tweets for offensive content. Before the opening credits have rolled on the first ...

Rebus, based on Ian Rankin's popular detective novel, is getting a new six-part TV series from streamer Viaplay and Eleventh Hour Films. Set in contemporary Edinburgh and adapted from Rankin's books, ...

Some Scottish crime writers are apparently incapable of closing the books on their most famous characters. No, this isn’t about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who famously resurrected Sherlock Holmes after ...

Another BBC series has received rave reviews from fans and it is available to stream for free now. Based on the best-selling novels by Sir Ian Rankin, Rebus follows a hard-edged detective who ...

knows something about literary tours and driving past famous people's houses. Rankin is touring the U.S. promoting "Exit Music," the 17th novel in a series featuring Edinburgh detective John Rebus. He ...

UK-based indie Eleventh Hour Films has acquired rights to Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series of detective novels, and attached ’71 writer Gregory Burke to pen a contemporary TV drama adaptation. The ...

HAY-ON-WYE (Reuters) - Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin, creator of the acclaimed Inspector Rebus series, said on Monday his hard-drinking detective hero must retire this year but might well be back ...

As Outlander moves ever so closer to its final chapter, Richard Rankin has already begun venturing out with a gritty role. The Scotsman steps into the world of Rebus, a reimagined adaptation of Sir ...

Ian Rankin’s immensely popular detective, Inspector John Rebus, is set for a major reimagining in the form of a six-part series from streamer Viaplay and Eleventh Hour Films. Set in contemporary ...

Like his fictional detective John Rebus, Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin works by instinct, jotting down ideas, hoping that one will fire his imagination enough to constitute a theme or a plot. “I ...