Around twenty five novels, two television series with different actors, and a third that starts again from the beginning.
The books, in order, and there are a lot of them.
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The 1987 first novel. It is the shortest and roughest of them; Rankin has said he did not know he was starting a series.
The books are chronological and Rebus ages in real time, which means he retires around book seventeen and the later novels deal with that. Reading out of order spoils a lot of it. If you want a shortcut, Black and Blue, the eighth, is where most readers say the series becomes what it is.
Fourteen episodes. Watch the Ken Stott ones from 2006 onward; the four earlier ones with John Hannah are a different reading of the character and are usually skipped.
The BBC reboot. It restarts with a younger Rebus and does not continue from the ITV series.
Then what? A second series of the BBC version has been commissioned. Rankin is still writing the novels.
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