Season 1, Episode 27 - Ian Rankin (ABOUT THE AUTHORS TV)

Scottish crime author Ian Rankin is among the U.K.’s most revered and best-selling crime authors of all time, courtesy of his now-legendary series starring Inspector John Rebus, garnering him the CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction, several Edgar Awards, the ITV Crime Thriller Award for Author of the Year and countless others over the past 4 decades.  He recently took home the Crime Writers of America’s Lifetime Achivement Award, has won Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, the ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Author of the Year trophy, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has seen his legendary Inspector John Rebus even be given his own official day in Scotland and be adapted into an television series on ITV.