A Heart Full of Headstones: The Gripping New Must-Read Thriller from the No.1 Bestseller Ian Rankin

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For access to the Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium seating rows A to C and wheelchair spaces in the Front Stalls, please enter via the Artists' Entrance in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Slip Road (Level 1). But it all comes together brilliantly, as only Rankin can do with his ability to incorporate current events into his books, and with his trademark dark humour. It didn’t have to be a Rebus, it didn’t have to be set in Edinburgh and I’ve had this idea for quite a few years of this little stand alone story that would be set in London amongst the super wealthy.

Rebus’ brother for example, who’s alive and kicking, hurray, in this version of events, is a really interesting character, Siobhan’s there and Malcolm Fox, and there’s that thing about is she on Rebus’ side or is she going to have to take Rebus down cos he keeps breaking, er bending,” he corrects, “the rules too much. In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive high-rise—and every resident is a suspect. But Ger Cafferty does,” says Rankin, referencing John Rebus’ nemesis, the gangster whose life of crime has been intertwined with the former policeman’s for decades in his Inspector Rebus novels. Many of the books have been adapted for television, there have been several radio productions and there’s even been a stage show version adapted by Rona Munro.

From the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin, comes one of the must-read books of the year: A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES 'Genius . Rebus (sort of) protected Big Ger on occasion, on the theory that the mobster's incarceration would leave a vacuum at the top of Edinburgh's criminal empire. With grim determination, Gillian works her way through an elite set of suspects, including, a dodgy Russian oligarch, a lonely actress, an Arab princess, the family of a notorious career criminal and the reclusive building’s developer.

A gleaming residential tower, ‘The Rise’ is newly constructed from steel and blackened glass, standing on a patch of prestigious London real estate. This is a murder mystery – part of the mystery being just what the perpetrator was doing and what they wanted from the high rise residential complex of the book’s title. Rebus’s old nemesis, underworld figure Cafferty, wants to hire him to find a man who is supposedly dead. The shorter form does not allow for the large number of complexities of a Rebus novel but Rankin's talent slips many of them in there.Officer Francis Haggard, who's been at Tynecastle for his entire career, is accused of domestic abuse for beating his wife Cheryl, and there's plenty of proof that Haggard is guilty. Big Ger Cafferty (Rebus’ longtime nemesis) surveys the vista of Edinburgh through a telescope from the prized position of his penthouse unit. In Ian Rankin's latest addition to his Scottish crime series featuring the Edinburgh based retired, in poor health, Detective John Rebus is wonderfully intricate and complex, with a barnstormer of a beginning in which Rebus is in court, shockingly in the dock, but we are given no hint as to what he is charged with.