What an absolute pleasure it was to have Sir Ian Rankin with us earlier this week to talk about his new book ‘The Heights’. We don’t think that we have ever had so much laughter at an event before!

Ian was interviewed by local crime writer, Ed James, discussing everything from Rankin’s cameos in the the tv series of Rebus to the issues the arts are facing with the rise of AI.

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.



The Heights is crime-thriller writing at its finest – topical, thought-provoking and eye-opening – and proves why Ian Rankin remains one of our greatest social commentators in British fiction. This is a novel of two Londons – one for the normal everyday people, and one for the global super-rich elites. It speaks to the global picture of stark and growing inequalities across many cities.

Praise for Sir Ian Rankin:

‘Rankin is a phenomenon’
SPECTATOR

‘Worthy of Agatha Christie at her best’
SCOTSMAN

‘The king of crime fiction’
SUNDAY EXPRESS

‘The arrival of a Rankin novel remains one of life’s pleasures’
EXPRESS