Photo: Supplied by Auckland Wreiters Festival
The recipient of a Diamond Dagger award, which recognises outstanding lifetime achievement in crime fiction, Ian Rankin is unparalleled in his field.
The Scottish crime writer and philanthropist, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels, has sold multi-million copies worldwide and was knighted for services to Literature. Together with his wife Miranda Harvey, the pair anonymously ran a charitable trust supporting art, health and education (though not so anonymous now!)
Ian speaks with Susie Ferguson about his latest Rebus thriller, Midnight and Blue, which sees the Edinburgh detective behind bars, searching for a killer.
Ian Rankin is in New Zealand appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival tonight.
Writer Ian Rankin - who's visiting New Zealand for the 2025 Auckland Writer's Festival - with RNZ's Susie Ferguson. Photo: RNZ / Jessie Chiang
