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Sep 2, 2021 · Ian Rankin finishes writing the last novel by William McIlvanney. When the legendary Scottish crime writer William McIlvanney died in 2015, he left behind the work on his latest manuscript – DC Jack Laidlaw’s first case. Now, Ian is back to finish what McIlvanney started.
Sep 6, 2021 · There was a title for that one too: A Murder Artist. So will we see Ian Rankin’s name alongside William McIlvanney’s in a fifth Laidlaw novel? Sadly, the answer is an emphatic no.
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Aug 31, 2021 · Rankin grew up on McIlvanney’s crime novels and befriended him while he was laboring to get his own writing career on track. “I probably wouldn’t be here as a mystery novelist if it wasn’t for William McIlvanney,” he says.
Aug 30, 2021 · There are multiple misdirections that seem more like Rankin than McIlvanney, and the revelation about the murderer was fairly easy to guess, but satisfying nonetheless.
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Malcolm Fox is a separate but related series (currently including two additional books, with two others also part of the Inspector John Rebus book series). The books are set in Scotland, and the books feature Malcolm, who is working at the police – Complaints division (Internal Affairs) in Edinburgh. Here are the books in reading order. 1. The Comp...
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Aug 30, 2021 · Crime writer Ian Rankin has said it was an "incredible honour" to be asked to finish writing the last novel by William McIlvanney. Author of the acclaimed Glasgow detective novel Laidlaw,...
