Scotiana

Hey Mairiuna, hope you don’t mind if I talk again today about our favorite crime writer, Ian Rankin. I’m just kidding, as i know you will be thrilled to read about the subsequent books that were published after the “Rebus finale“.

Upon the publishing of his final book featuring Detective Inspector John Rebus, Exit Music, Scottish [...]

Ian Rankin’s Exit Music, published in December 2007, was to be the final instalment of a series of eighteen ( if we include Death Is Not The End, a novella that was further expanded in the novel Dead Souls) crime novels featuring the well known and charismatic Edinburgh’s Inspector  John Rebus.
Book reviews quoted Exit Music [...]

Okay Mairiuna!   It’s with great pleasure that I will try to shed some light on the prestigious 2006 to 2008 Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award honoring the very best in English crime and thriller writings.
But before I disclose the names of the authors who received the ornamental dagger and a £20,000 prize tied to [...]

Books books books! What insatiable bookworms we are, Janice, ”de vrais rats de bibliothèque” as we would say in France.  Are we going to become like Inspector Rebus?  Remember what Ian Rankin has written about him in Knots & Crosses?
Rebus collected unread books. Once upon a time, he had actually read the books that he bought, [...]

Take a good detective novel with you in the car, read it or listen to it and you’ll soon forget bad weather, heavy traffic and  long hours of driving on dull motorways. As Janice mentioned it to you, in her last post, that’s exactly what we did on our long journey from Bordeaux to Scotland.
Motorways [...]