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Ian Rankin to complete William McIlvanney’s final novel The Dark Remains – The Guardian
Due out next year, the novel will see the Rebus creator fill out notes for another Laidlaw mystery left by the revered Scottish crime writer on his death in 2015…
Ian Rankin has spent most of lockdown writing a novel but it isnt a new Rebus. Instead, the Scottish writer has been putting the finishing touches to a handwritten manuscript left by the late William McIlvanney, the so-called godfather of tartan noir and author of the Laidlaw detective books.
McIlvanney died in 2015, at the age of 79, leaving behind a trilogy of novels that Val McDermid says changed the face of Scottish fiction. The manuscript of The Dark Remains was found by his widow Siobhan Lynch…
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