Ian Rankin (A Song For The Dark Times)

<p>When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days.</p><p>Rebus fears the worst – and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect.</p><p>He wasn’t the best father – the job always came first – but now his daughter needs him more than ever.&nbsp;But is he going as a father or a detective?</p><p>As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast – and a small town with big secrets – he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is the one thing he doesn’t want to find...</p><p><br></p><p>Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. In 2004, Ian won America’s celebrated Edgar Award for&nbsp;<em>Resurrection Men</em>. He has also been shortlisted for the Edgar and Anthony Awards in the USA, and won Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and Germany’s Deutscher Krimipreis.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ian has received an OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his wife and two sons.</p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>