Ian Rankin's famous world-weary detective John ... A Heart full of Headstones ends with Rebus about to be sentenced in court, it was, Rankin believed, a suitable place to end the Rebus story.

When Rebus author Ian Rankin first met William McIlvanney he told him he was working on his first crime book which was going to be "like Laidlaw, but set in Edinburgh" Crime writer Ian Rankin has ...