To celebrate the publication of Ian Rankin’s new novel, Doors Open, we’re giving 5 lucky people the chance to win a set of Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus novels – that’s 17 books in total. All the books have been redesigned with brand new covers that look fabulous on any bookshelf. For your chance to win, answer the simple question below.

Five winners will be randomly selected from the correct entries and will be notified by email. They will each win a set of Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus novels. The closing date is 1 October 2008. Competition rules and conditions.

So go to the site, answer the very easy question and then keep your fingers crossed!

Win a complete set of Inspector Rebus novels! is a post from: Book Addicts Book Group

For the right man, all doors are open…Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul. He is looking for something to liven up the days and perhaps give new meaning to his existence. A chance encounter at an art auction offers him the opportunity to do just that as he settles on a plot to commit a ‘perfect crime’. He intends to rip-off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital – the National Gallery of Scotland. So, together with two close friends from the art world, he devises a plan to a lift some of the most valuable artwork around. But of course, the real trick is to rob the place for all its worth whilst persuading the world that no crime was ever committed. But soon after he enters the dark waters of the criminal underworld he realises that it’s very easy to drown…

Watch Ian Rankin – yes he’s a favourite of mine – talk about his new novel Doors Open which is published this month. Those of you (me) who were lucky enough to read it when it was serialised in the NY Times already know how good it is, but this is the first time it has been published so why not give it a go. This is not an Inspector Rebus book, this is a standalone novel, based in and around the fantastic city of Edinburgh.

I especially like the part in the video where Ian is saying now that he can afford it he collects art lol

Ian Rankin talks about Doors Open is a post from: Book Addicts Book Group

A compelling and claustrophobic supernatural thriller from a remarkable new author.

‘Buy my stepfather’s ghost’ read the e-mail.

So Jude did.

He bought the dead man’s suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it: because his fans ate up that kind of story. It was perfect for his collection: the genuine skulls and the bones, the real honest-to-God snuff movie, the occult books and all the rest of the paraphanalia that goes along with his kind of hard/goth rock.
But the rest of his collection doesn’t make the house feel cold. The bones don’t make the dogs bark; the movie doesn’t make Jude feel as if he’s being watched. And none of the artefacts bring a vengeful old ghost with black scribbles over his eyes out of the shadows to chase Jude out of his home, and make him run for his life . . .

Joe Hill is past recipient of the Ray Bradbury Fellowship and the winner of the A.E. Coppard Long Fiction Prize. His short fiction has appeared in literary, mystery and horror collections and magazines in Britain and America.

Joe Hill talks about Heart-Shaped Box is a post from: Book Addicts Book Group