First performed at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre, the first stage play from the SUNDAY TIMES No.1 bestselling author of SAINTS OF THE SHADOW BIBLE.
It's been 25 years since Alfred Chalmers was convicted of the gruesome murder of four young women in Edinburgh. Isobel McArthur, Scotland's first Chief Superintendent, was the woman responsible for putting him behind bars, but the case has haunted her ever since.
Now, with her retirement approaching, McArthur decides the time has come for answers. To uncover the truth, she revisits the case and interviews Chalmers for the first time in decades. But her decision rips opens old wounds and McArthur is soon caught up in a web of corruption, psychological mind-games and deceit that threatens not only her own life, but those of her fellow officers and even her own daughter.
Tense, gritty and hard-hitting, DARK ROAD is the first ever stage play from bestselling crime writer Ian Rankin, co-written by the Royal Lyceum's Artistic Director Mark Thomson.
Rankin continues to be unsurpassed among living British crime writers - THE TIMES
Outstanding ... very ambitious and very confident - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Gritty and hard-hitting, it's the work of a writer at the very top of his game - SUNDAY MIRROR
Genius ... Rankin once again proves himself to be the consummate master of crime - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
Rankin's dialogue flows so naturally that it's easy to dismiss his subtler gifts; no one captures the bleak grandeur of Scotland, or the mindset of those charged with upholding its law, in quite the same way - FINANCIAL TIMES
A richly-plotted and densely-textured portrait of modern Scotland and its ills - INDEPENDENT
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Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin
Masterminds | Have you ever been in a bar fight?
Masterminds | Police work in crime novels
Masterminds | Getting stuck: Where's the twist?
Masterminds | Research and discovery when writing
Masterminds | Rebus changing over time
Masterminds | Rebus' health issues
Masterminds | If Rebus were real . . .
Rather Be the Devil | Reading by Ian Rankin #Rebus30
Rather Be The Devil | Introduction by author Ian Rankin #Rebus30
Standing in Another Man's Grave - by Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin discusses his latest book, The Impossible Dead
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first novel The Flood was published in 1986, while his first Rebus novel, Knots & Crosses, was published in 1987. The Rebus series is now translated into twenty-two languages and the books are bestsellers on several continents. Ian has received an OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his wife and two sons.