Playback: Das Hörbuch zum Sprachen lernen mit ausgewählten Kurzgeschichten. Niveau A2

by Ian Rankin

Englisch lernen mit Ian Rankin: Eine junge Frau wird ermordet in ihrem Apartment aufgefunden, der Mörder stellt sich selbst der Polizei – aber ist die Aufklärung des Falls tatsächlich so einfach wie es scheint? Und zwei Männer machen durch konspirative Gespräche auf sich aufmerksam und werden betrügerischer Machenschaften verdächtigt. Mit bissigem Sarkasmus und viel Ironie ermittelt Detective John Rebus in seiner schottischen Heimatstadt Edinburgh. Ian Rankin gelang mit der Figur des John Rebus der internationale Durchbruch als Schriftsteller. Zwei ausgewählte Kurzgeschichten: 1) Playback 2) Being Frank

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Published May 11, 2005

About the author

AKA Jack Harvey.

Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987; the Rebus books are now translated into 22 languages and are bestsellers on several continents.

Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow. He is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award, and he received two Dagger Awards for the year's best short story and the Gold Dagger for Fiction. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, and Edinburgh.

A contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts, on Channel 4 in 2002. He recently received the OBE for services to literature, and opted to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons.

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