The Falls
Chapters (30)
- Cover
- Praise for Ian Rankin
- About the Author
- By Ian Rankin
- Ian Rankin
- To Allan and Euan,who set the ball rolling.
- Introduction
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- Philip Kerr, ‘The Unnatural History Museum’
- Afterword
- © Rankin
- ABOUT IAN RANKIN
- Introduction to DI John Rebus
- For general discussionregarding the Rebus series
- THE FALLS
- Discussion points for The Falls
- Copyright
Cover
Praise for Ian Rankin
‘Rankin’s ability to create a credible character, delivering convincing dialogue to complement sinister and hard-hitting plots set against vividly detailed atmosphere, is simply awesome’
Time Out
‘Rankin is streets ahead in the British police procedural writing field … our top crime writer’
Independent on Sunday
‘His ear for dialogue is as sharp as a switchblade. This is, quite simply, crime writing of the highest order’
Daily Express
‘Rankin writes laconic, sophisticated, well-paced thrillers’
Scotsman
‘Ian Rankin bridges the gulf between the straight novel and the mystery with enviable ease’
Allan Massie
‘First-rate crime fiction with a fierce realism’
Sunday Telegraph
‘Rankin uses his laconic prose as a literary paint stripper, scouring away pretensions to reveal the unwholesome reality beneath’
Independent
‘His fiction buzzes with energy … Essentially, he is a romantic storyteller in the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson … His prose is as vivid and terse as the next man’s, yet its flexibility and rhythm give it a potential for lyrical expression which is distinctively Rankin’s own’
Scotland on Sunday
About the Author
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. His first Rebus novel, Knots and Crosses, was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into over thirty languages and are bestsellers worldwide.
Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005 and in 2009 was inducted into the CWA Hall of Fame. In 2004, Ian won America’s celebrated Edgar award for Resurrection Men. He has also been shortlisted for the Anthony Awards in the USA, and won Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Hull and the Open University.
A contributor to BBC2’s Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin’s Evil Thoughts. He has received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh. He has also recently been appointed to the rank of Deputy Lieutenant of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons. Visit his website at www.ianrankin.net.