But in finding an ally, he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack. When he's offered a serial killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive lady psychologist, it's too good an opportunity to turn down. Rebus is going have to deal with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac. It's bad enough having several Chief Inspectors on your back without being hounded at every turn by an upstart Jock. His Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn't too happy at yet more interference. He also deals with the fickle justice of the Court system and his daughter's new boyfriend.īecause the first body was found in Wolf Street, because the murderer takes a bite from each body, the press have found a new terror, the Wolfman.ĭrafted down to the Big Smoke thanks to his supposed expertise in the modus operandi of serial killers, Inspector Rebus is on a train south from Edinburgh. The story sees Rebus travelling to London to aid the Metropolitan Police with the search for a serial killer.

He recently received the OBE for services to literature, and opted to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons.Tooth & Nail is the third novel by Ian Rankin to feature Inspector Rebus. John Rebus is on a train from Edinburgh to London, where he has been drafted for his expertise in the modus. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, and Edinburgh.Ī contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts, on Channel 4 in 2002. The novel is framed by a prologue and epilogue both titled simply 'Now.' In these, John Rebus is on trial for a crime he commits at the end of 'Then,' the main narrative (divided into 8 days), which takes place not long before. Drafted down to the Big Smoke, Inspector John Rebus finds himself on a train south from Edinburgh, thanks to his expertise in the modus operandi of serial. He is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award, and he received two Dagger Awards for the year's best short story and the Gold Dagger for Fiction.

Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987 the Rebus books are now translated into 22 languages and are bestsellers on several continents. Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature.

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