by Ian Rankin
The Flood
Watchman
Westwind
Doors
Open
Writing as Jack Harvey
Witch Hunt
Bleeding Hearts
Blood Hunt
Short Stories
A Good Hanging and
Other Stories
Beggars Banquet
The Beat Goes On
Plays
Dark Road
All Ian Rankin’s titles are available on audio.
Also available: Jackie Leven Said by Ian Rankin and Jackie Leven.
About the Authors
Ian Rankin is the multi-million copy worldwide bestseller of over thirty novels and creator of John Rebus. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages and have been adapted for radio, the stage and the screen.
Rankin is the recipient of four Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards, including the Diamond Dagger, the UK’s most prestigious award for crime fiction. In the United States, he has won the celebrated Edgar Award and been shortlisted for the Anthony Award. In Europe, he has won Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the German Deutscher Krimipreis.
He is the recipient of honorary degrees from universities across the UK, is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature, and has received an OBE for his services to literature.
Website: IanRankin.net
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Rona Munro has written extensively for stage, radio, film and television. Her theatre credits include Lucy Barton – a one-woman show performed by Laura Linney at The Bridge Theatre London in 2018; The James Plays – a trilogy of award-winning plays produced by the National Theatre of Scotland, The National Theatre UK and Edinburgh International Festival; Scuttlers; Little Eagles and Iron, for which she won the John Whiting Award in 2003. Her television credits include the BAFTA-nominated Bumping the Odds, and her films include the Ken Loach film Ladybird Ladybird, and Oranges and Sunshine, directed by Jim Loach. Her work for radio includes several dramas for The Stanley Baxter Playhouse. Rona is the only writer so far to have contributed episodes to both the ‘classic’ and contemporary series of Doctor Who.
Copyright
Rebus: Long Shadows was first performed at The Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 20th September 2018. Produced by Daniel Schumann, Lee Dean and Cambridge Arts Theatre in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Orion Books
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Copyright © 2018 John Rebus Ltd and Rona Munro
The moral right of Ian Rankin and Rona Munro to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.
All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN (Hardback) 978 1 4091 8574 1
ISBN (eBook) 978 1 4091 8576 5
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