What contrasts does Jim Stevens make between ‘old-fashioned’ crime, such as the ‘families’ of 1950s Glasgow gangsters, and the ‘new’ crime wave, such as drug-dealing? And which does he favour?
What do you make of Rebus’s behaviour towards the woman he picks up at the Rio Grande Bingo Hall?
‘Was nothing arbitrary in this life?’ Rebus wonders. ‘No, nothing at all. Behind the seemingly irrational lay the clear golden path of the design.’ Consider how even in his debut novel Ian Rankin explores this notion.
Are there any signs remaining that Ian Rankin toyed with the idea of killing Rebus off at the end of Knots amp; Crosses?
If Ian Rankin had envisaged Knots amp; Crosses to be the opener for the lengthy and detailed series the Rebus books were to become, how could he have allowed his plotting to draw to a close in a more open-ended manner? And might this have made the narrative stronger ultimately?
By Ian Rankin
The Inspector Rebus series
01. Knots & Crosses 1987
02. Hide & Seek
03. Tooth & Nail
04. Strip Jack
05. The Black Book
06. Mortal Causes
07. Let It Bleed
08. Black & Blue
09. The Hanging Garden
10. Death Is Not the End (novella)
12. Set in Darkness
13. The Falls
14. Resurrection Men
15. A Question of Blood
16. Fleshmarket Close
17. The Naming of the Dead
18. Exit Music
Other novels
The Flood
Watchman
Westwind
Writing as Jack Harvey
Witch Hunt
Bleeding Hearts
Blood Hunt
Short stories
Stories
Beggars Banquet
Omnibus editions
Rebus: The Early Years
(Knots & Crosses, Hide & Seek, Tooth & Nail)
Rebus: The St Leonard’s Years
(Strip Jack, The Black Book, Mortal Causes)
Rebus: The Lost Years
(Let It Bleed, Black & Blue, The Hanging Garden)
Rebus: Capital Crimes
(Dead Souls, Set in Darkness, The Falls)
Non-fiction
Rebus’s Scotland
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