portrayed "bad guy." In A Heart Full of Headstones Rankin gives us the point of view of a policeman who comes close to killing a suspect in the same manner as George Floyd was killed, while being filmed by bystanders. Publishing history The Inspector Rebus series is commercially successful in the United Kingdom, accounting for an estimated 10% of all crime book sales in the UK as of 2015. The books routinely sell half a million copies each, and have been translated into 36 languages. As of 2015 they are published in the UK by the Orion Publishing Group. The seventeenth was thought to be the last as Rebus turned sixty, the age of retirement for CID officers, and in 2009 Rankin produced a fresh protagonist in the form of Inspector Malcolm Fox of the police's Complaints and Conduct Department. In this book (The Complaints) and its 2011 sequel (The Impossible Dead) Rebus and his colleague (Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke) did not appear. However at the Hay Festival in June 2012 Rankin announced a further book, entitled Standing in Another Man's Grave, subsequently released in November 2012. This was followed by further novels in which Rebus (now a civilian), Clarke (now promoted Detective Inspector) and Fox all served as protagonists. Novels Knots and Crosses (1987) Hide and Seek (1991) Tooth and Nail (original title Wolfman) (1992) Strip Jack (1992) The Black Book (1993) Mortal Causes (1994) Let It Bleed (1996) Black & Blue (1997) The Hanging Garden (1998) Dead Souls (1999) Set in Darkness (2000) The Falls (2001) Resurrection Men (2002) A Question of Blood (2003) Fleshmarket Close (published in the US as Fleshmarket Alley) (2004) The Naming of the Dead (2006) Exit Music (2007) Standing in Another Man's Grave (2012) Saints of the Shadow Bible (2013) Even Dogs in the Wild (2015) Rather Be the Devil (2016) In a House of Lies (2018) A Song for the Dark Times (2020) A Heart Full of Headstones (2022) Short stories one * = published in some version of The Beat Goes On (2014) two ** = published in A Good Hanging and Other Stories (1992) as well as in The Beat Goes On. Collections Rebus - The Early Years [Knots and Crosses, Hide and Seek, Tooth and Nail] (1990) Rebus - The St. Leonards' Years [Strip Jack, The Black Book, Mortal Causes] (2001) Rebus - The Lost Years [Let it Bleed,