Tag: Ian Rankin

  • May 2025

    When I set up my blog about books and reading a couple of years ago, I did of course need a name for it. Over a cup of coffee I played about with some rather obvious titles: cover to cover, turning the page etc etc. They had of course all been taken by existing blogs […]

  • October 2023

    I came to Ian Rankin late, even though I had known the name and his reputation for a long time. So there are now 24 books about his detective John Rebus. I started at the beginning as I like to do and have now just read book number 8: ‘Black and Blue.’ Rebus lives and […]

  • Knots and Crosses and Hide and Seek … Ian Rankin

    Rebus means enigmatic puzzle. Whether Ian Rankin gave his main character this name for this reason I don’t know but it definitely works. I have a list of authors that I want to explore further or visit for the first time and Ian Rankin has been there for a long time. Weirdly I read the […]