Ian Rankin Quotes (7 Quotes)

Jack Harvey wrote thrillers, which are very different beasts to crime novels lavish, almost pornographic descriptions of weaponry sex scenes world travel. These things were closed to me in the kind of crime novels I was writing.

As time's gone on, I've probably become a lot more like him John Rebus I drink at his bar and I like to be one on one with my music late at night.

Music is a good shorthand way to delineate character,

By that time, Rebus will be 59 and, for a CID officer, he is getting fairly long in the tooth. They will have brought in the smoking ban by 2007, so he will definitely want to retire to somewhere in the sun for a drink and a smoke.

It's a young man's book, all about the perils and pitfalls of growing up.

When a murder is satisfied, it isn't the beginning of the story it's the middle. We shouldn't forget that fact because murder has ripples. You never go back to being the same. The people that investigate these crimes never go back to being the same as they were before they started the investigation. The people's whose lives have been affected, the victim's families, even the murderer themselves are profoundly changed. That's why murder is still the most interesting crime for us to write about, because it is the only crime where something unique is taken away from the world, something that can't be replaced.

It's a strange feeling to see one's books come up at auction and also, to some extent, a sign of my miserable early failings as an author.