Rebus' life of crime brings Rankin award
EDINBURGH crime writer Ian Rankin has scooped a major award for his latest Rebus novel.
Rankin won the BCA Crime Thriller of the Year prize for The Naming of the Dead at the Galaxy British Book Awards in London.
Television comics Peter Kay and Ricky Gervais also collected prizes at the ceremony, hosted by TV presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan.
Gervais, star of The Office and Extras, won the Children's Book of the Year prize for his cartoon creations Flanimals of the Deep.
Kay beat Gordon Ramsay to the Biography of the Year award with his bestselling memoir, The Sound of Laughter.
Thriller writer John Grisham picked up the Lifetime Achievement Award.
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