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IAN RANKIN: The Heights

  • Assembly Rooms Edinburgh · Edinburgh
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IAN RANKIN: The Heights
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We are thrilled to celebrate the launch of Number One bestseller and local celebrity Sir Ian Rankin's new novel The Heights at Assembly Rooms; the first Rankin novel since Midnight & Blue in 2024 and the first standalone in nearly two decades.
Books will be available to purchase before and after the event, and Ian will sign books at the end of the evening.

About the book:
Murder comes to London's most luxurious high-rise; and every resident is a suspect.
The Heights: a gleaming, high-end high-rise looming over Hyde Park. Newly built from steel and smoked glass, a billionaire's playground offering sumptuous suites for the global elite. But when a night concierge is found murdered in the lobby, the building's rarefied atmosphere is shattered, and the gilded lives within come under intense police scrutiny. In a world designed to keep prying eyes out, where the residents are not used to being held to account, born-and-bred Londoner Detective Gillian Gish must find a way past their power, wealth and unimaginable influence. The rules may be different at the top - but is anyone truly above the law? Or could it be that the higher you rise, the further you fall...?

About our author:
Ian Rankin is the multimillion-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. In 2022 he received a knighthood as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
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Assembly Rooms Edinburgh, 54 George Street,Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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