Inheritance Tracks

Ian Rankin


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The best-selling crime-writer Sir Ian Rankin began his life surrounded by food. His dad ran a grocery store in Fife, his mum worked in a school canteen, and Ian's early writing saw him reviewing wine.

He says he never intended to turn to crime, so to speak, but it was his creation of the hard-drinking and stubborn Edinburgh detective Inspector John Rebus which changed his writing style – and his life.

Beginning with Knots and Crosses in 1987, there have now been 25 Rebus novels - as well as the tv dramas and stage plays – mainly dealing with Scotland’s dark and dangerous underworld.

What then will he reveal as his Inheritenace Tracks?

Inherited: Seven Drunken Nights by The Dubliners

Pass on: Another Man's Rain by Jackie Leven

Producers: Ben Mitchell and Noa Dowling

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