Ian Rankin

Bibliography

Inspector Rebus

• The Early Years (1999)
  • Knots & Crosses (1987)
  • Hide & Seek (1991)
  • Tooth & Nail (1992)
    A/K/A: Wolfman
• A Good Hanging (1992)
  – Short stories.
• Well Shot (1993)
  – Short story; published in 2nd Culprit (not included in any Rebus short story collection).
• The St. Leonard’s Years (2001)
  • Strip Jack (1992)
  • The Black Book (1993)
  • Mortal Causes (1994)
• The Lost Years (2003)
  • Let it Bleed (1995)
  • Black and Blue (1997)
  • The Hanging Garden (1998)
• Death Is Not the End (1998)
  – Novella, later expanded into Dead Souls.
• Get Shortie (1999)
  – Short story; published in Crime Wave 2, Deepest Red, June edition (not included in any Rebus short story collection).
• The Acid Test (1999)
  – Short story; published in EQMM, August edition (not included in any Rebus short story collection).
• Capital Crimes (2004)
  • Dead Souls (1999)
  • Set in Darkness (2000)
  • The Falls (2001)
• Beggars Banquet (2002)
  – Short stories (including some non-series entries).
• Three Great Novels (2007)
  • Resurrection Men (2002)
  • A Question of Blood (2003)
  • Fleshmarket Close (2004)
• The Complete Short Stories (2005)
  • A Good Hanging (1992)
  • Beggars Banquet (2002)
  • Atonement (2005)
    – Stand-alone short story.
• The Naming Of The Dead (2006)
• Exit Music (2007)
• The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories (2014)
• In the Nick of Time (2014)
  – Short story; in: Face Off (anthology; edited by David Baldacci).
• Charades (2017)
  – Short story; published in Country Life, December 13-20, 2017.

Malcolm Fox

• The Complaints (2009)
• The Impossible Dead (2011)

Books Featuring Both Rebus and Fox

• Standing in Another Man’s Grave (2012)
• Saints of the Shadow Bible (2013)
  – With bonus short story Dead and Buried.
• Even Dogs in the Wild (2015)
• Rather Be the Devil (2016)
  – With bonus short story Cafferty’s Day.
• In a House of Lies (2018)
• A Song for the Dark Times (2020)

Non-Series Novels and Novellas

• Summer Rites (1984)
  – Published fragment of Rankin’s first novel (unpublished in its complete form).
• The Flood (1986)
• Watchman (1988)
• Westwind (1990)
• Doors Open (2008)
• A Cool Head (2009)
• The Travelling Companion (2016)
  – Limited edition bibliomystery; in: Death Sentences (anthology, edited by Otto Penzler).

Writing as Jack Harvey:

• The Jack Harvey Novels (2000)
  • Witch Hunt (1993)
  • Bleeding Hearts (1994)
  • Blood Hunt (1995)

Graphic Novels and Novellas

• Dark Entries (2009)
  – Vertigo Crime series book featuring John Constantine (Hellblazer); with art by Werther Dell’Edera.
• The Lie Factory (2013)
  – Illustrated by Tim Truman; part of the Kickback City CD package, featuring Rory Gallagher songs fictionalized in the novella and with narration by Aidan Quinn.

Non-Series and Stand-Alone Short Stories

• An Afternoon (1984)
  – In: New Writing Scotland No. 2; revised version published in OxCrimes, 2014 (anthology for the benefit of Oxfam).
• Voyeurism (1985)
  – In: New Writing Scotland No. 3.
• Colony (1986)
  – In: New Writing Scotland No. 4.
• Scarab (1986)
  – In: Scottish Short Stories 1986.
• Territory (1987)
  – In: Scottish Short Stories 1987.
• Remembrance (1988)
  – In: Cencrastus, Spring edition.
• Marked for Death (1992)
  – In: Constable New Crimes 1.
• Adventures in Babysitting (1995)
  – In: No Alibi; republished in Master’s Choice II (2000).
• Herbert in Motion (1997)
  – Limited edition chapbook collection of short stories previously published in magazines:
  • Herbert in Motion
  • The Serpent’s Back
  • My Shopping Day
    – Rebus story.
  • No. 79
• The Missing (1999)
  – In: Crime Wave, March edition.
• The Slab Boys (2000)
  – In: Scenes of Crime (CWA anthology, edited by Martin Edwards).
• Criminal Minded (2000)
  – Anthology; editor.
• Soft Spot (2005)
  – In: Dangerous Women (anthology; edited by Otto Penzler).
• Showtime (2005)
  – In: One City (anthology for the benefit of the Edinburgh One City Trust).
• Sinner: justified (2006)
  – In: Superhumanatural (companion publication for Scottish artist Douglas Gordon’s solo exhibition of the same name).
• Graduation Day (2006)
  – In: Murder in the Rough (anthology, edited by Otto Penzler).
• Fieldwork (2009)
  – In: Ox-Tales: Earth (1 of 4 anthologies for the benefit of Oxfam, themed for the 4 elements).
• Meet & Greet (2015)
  – In: The Strand XLVI.
• The Kill Fee (2015)
  – In: The New Statesman, December 18, 2015 – January 8, 2016.

Drama

• Gesualdo (2008)
  – Opera, with Craig Armstrong.
• Dark Road (2014)
  – Play, with Mark Thomson.

Recordings

• The Third Gentleman (1997)
  – Black comedy set in 1790s Edinburgh; BBC, October 25, 1997.
• Jackie Leven Said (2005)
  – Short story reading recorded live; joint appearance with Jackie Leven.
• The Sixth Stone (2007)
  – With musician Aidan Moffat, on the album Ballads of the Book, featuring collaborations between Scottish musicians and Scottish writers.
• This Has Been the Death of Us (2009)
  – With Scottish indie band Saint Jude’s Infirmary.
• The Deathwatch Journal (2017)
  – BBC broadcast / audiobook, read by Jimmy Chisholm.

Nonfiction

• Detective Novels: The Pact Between Authors and Readers (1988)
  – Article published in The Writer, December edition.
• Rebus’s Scotland (2005)
  – Memoir and reflections on Edinburgh and Scotland; with photographs by Ross Gillespie and Tricia Malley.
• Oxford Bar (2007)
  – Essay; in the anthology How I Write: The Secret Lives of Authors.
• John Rebus (2007)
  – Limited edition chapbook; in the UK edition of The Beat Goes On included as Rankin on Rebus.
• Ian Rankin Interviews Arthur Conan Doyle (2013)
  – In: Dead Interviews: Living Writers Meet Dead Icons; editor: Dan Crowe.