John Rebus: A Mysterious Profile

The New York Times–bestselling author tells the story behind Inspector Rebus, the hard-edged Edinburgh cop. In this short work, Edgar and Diamond Dagger Award winner Ian Rankin delves into DI John Rebus's origins as a character, as well as his own origins as a writer.

While author and character share a love of literature and a deep affection for Scotland's capital city, they differ in other ways, as Rankin entertainingly testifies, while revealing how this compelling figure has developed over the course of his long-running series of gritty crime novels.