Ian Rankin: The Jack Harvey Novels (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
WITCH HUNT, BLEEDING HEARTS, COLD BLOOD [aka BLOOD HUNT]: Three thrillers by mega-seller Ian Rankin, writing as Jack Harvey 'Rankin's ability to create a credible character, delivering convincing dialogue to complement sinister and hard-hitting plots against vividly detailed atmosphere, is simply awesome' Time Out 'His fiction buzzes with energy - Essentially he is a romantic storyteller in the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson - His prose is as vivid and terse as the next man's yet its flexibility and rhythm give it a potential for lyrical expression which is distinctively Rankin's own - Rankin controls the material with extraordinary authority and even delicacy - Rankin ranks alongside P.D. James and Michael Dibdin as Britain's finest detective novelist' Scotland on Sunday 'Rankin's prose is understated, yet his canvas of Scotland's criminal underclass has a panoramic breadth. His ear for dialogue is as sharp as a switchblade. This is, quite simply, crime writing of the highest order' Daily Express.

Ian Rankin: The Jack Harvey Novels. With a new introduction by the author. Orion, ISBN: 0752837885 (October, 2000), 793 p., £12.99.