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Ian Rankin
Sir Ian Rankin (born 28 April 1960 in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland) is a Scottish crime writer best known for his Inspector Rebus novels, beginning with Knots and Crosses (1987). He studied at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1982, and has since written more than thirty novels, most set in and around Edinburgh. He was appointed OBE in 2002 for services to literature, received the Crime Writers' Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement in 2005, and was knighted in the...