Silver Spring, MD; May 6, 2008 —Acorn Media announces the July 1, 2008 DVD debut of Rebus, Set 3 offering four more taut thrillers from the smash hit British detective series based on Ian Rankin’s bestselling crime thrillers.

In maverick detective John Rebus, Ian Rankin has created “the most compelling mind in modern crime fiction” (The Independent, U.K), and actor Ken Stott (Charlie Wilson’s War) has found the role of a lifetime. Incorrigible, insubordinate, and deeply troubled, the hard-drinking Scottish detective plays by his own rules, hounding down murderers in modern-day Edinburgh with a single-mindedness that his superiors barely tolerate. His earnest, ambitious partner, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke (Claire Price, Poirot: The Hollow, Twelfth Night), learns from him even while she covers for him. The Scottish capital itself becomes a character in these thrillers, from its high, wind-swept hills to its shadowy backstreets.

The four grim, hard-boiled mysteries—include those based on Resurrection Men (Edgar Award®, Best Novel), The Naming of the Dead (British Book Award, Crime Thriller of the Year), The First Stone, and Knots and Crosses—show Rebus at his wiliest and most willful.

The U.K.’s bestselling crime writer, Ian Rankin has been called “the progenitor and king of tartan noir” by fellow crime writer James Ellroy. The series aired in the U.S. on BBC America.

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