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. 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. In the end I do like the accents that make a story even more realistic.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. Later in the book I did go back to the Echo and it seemed much better. Then I switched to my Bose headset and found it much easier to conectrate and I didn't find the accent a problem at all. I first started listening to this book on my Amazon Echo and found the accent a bit tough due to the extraneous noise, I really had to concentrate. Usually in a book like this it takes a while to get your ear tuned into the accent.
One last thing, the narrator has a distinct Scottish accent.
Well, you'll just have to listen to the book to find out. He mainly smokes too much but Rebus also drinks too much, has a terrible diet, has to take breaks walking up steps to the point where you wonder if Ranking is going to have him expire at book's end as an end to the series. One side note to this book is answering the question, is this the last book in the series? The author makes references to Rebus' health throughout the book.
Working with his long time sidekick, DS Clark, John works the case(s) in his way, alienating coworkers and the bad guys along the way. This book has two murders and a solid beating that need solving at the very end of John's career. Rebus is like the other good crime novel series I like, the detective is flawed but you can't help but like him and he gets the crime solved even if not always in a conventional manner. If you've made it this far, you must be a John Rebus series fan.
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