A Song for the Dark Times

Longlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger 2021

Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Crime & Thriller Book of the Year 2021

Longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2021

From the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin, comes one of the must-read books of the year: A Song For the Dark Times.

'He's gone...'

When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days.

Rebus fears the worst - and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect.

He wasn't the best father - the job always came first - but now his daughter needs him more than ever. But is he going as a father or a detective?

As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast - and a small town with big secrets - he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is the one thing he doesn't want to find...