Even Dogs in the Wild (Inspector John Rebus Series #20)
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Even Dogs in the Wild (Inspector John Rebus Series #20)
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Even Dogs in the Wild (Inspector John Rebus Series #20)

Even Dogs in the Wild (Inspector John Rebus Series #20)

by Ian Rankin
Even Dogs in the Wild (Inspector John Rebus Series #20)

Even Dogs in the Wild (Inspector John Rebus Series #20)

by Ian Rankin

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ISBN-13: 9780316342544
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: 12/13/2016
Series: Inspector John Rebus Series , #20
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 55,981
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

About The Author
"I grew up in a small coal-mining town in central Scotland. I was always interested in stories. Even though the town had no book stores (and my parents were not great readers), I made full use of the local library. It was mind-boggling to me that (at the age of 11 or 12) I could not gain access to a movie theatre to see such classics as The Godfather, A Clockwork Orange, or Straw Dogs, yet no one stopped me from borrowing these titles from my library. Books seemed to have about them a whiff of the illicit and the dangerous. That was all the encouragement I needed. I went to university in 1978, joined a punk band (on vocals), and continued to write a lot of song lyrics and poems. However, I found that my poems were actually 'telling stories', and so started to write short stories.

A few of these found publication and even won some awards. Then one story raged out of control and became my first novel. It was never published, but that didn't matter: I was now a novelist. I stumbled on Detective Inspector John Rebus by accident while attempting to write an update of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Rebus would be my Jekyll, his Hyde a character from his past. Along the way, I discovered that a cop is a good 'tool,' a way of looking at contemporary society, its rights and wrongs. Rebus, I decided, would stick around. Meantime, I finished unviersity, moved to London for four years (where I worked first as a college secretary, later as a hi-fi/audio journalist), then rural France for six years. Both my sons were born in France. By the time the oldest had reached school age, we'd decided to move back to Scotland. I now live and work in Edinburgh, and the Rebus novels have gone from strength to strength in terms of sales and recognition."

Author biography courtesy of Little, Brown & Company

Hometown:

Edinburgh, London and France

Date of Birth:

April 28, 1960

Place of Birth:

Cardenden, Scotland

Education:

Edinburgh University
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