He has also been shortlisted for the Edgar and Anthony Awards in the USA, and won Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis.

In 2004, Ian won America's celebrated Edgar Award for 'Resurrection Men'. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into twenty-two languages and are bestsellers on several continents. The original title was Wolfman but Rankin's American edition editor came up with the title Tooth and Nail, which Rankin 'liked better' as it kept the early title sequence ( & ) going.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. In the Exile on Princes Street foreword to Rebus: The Early Years, Rankin says he was living in London at the time of writing and didn't enjoy it, so 'I brought Rebus to London so he could suffer, too'.

Morris Gerald Cafferty makes his first appearance, in the background as a gangster Rebus has to give evidence against.

Rebus briefly thinks 'don't talk to me about Hyde', a reference to the events of Hide and Seek.

Rebus remembers the line 'There are clues everywhere' at one point, a reference to the taunting messages he receives in Knots and Crosses.

Journalist Jim Stevens from Knots and Crosses and non-Rebus book Watchman makes a cameo appearance, again basing off his status quo in Watchman.

When Rebus is offered a psychological profile of the Wolfman by an attractive woman, it seems too good an opportunity to miss.

His London colleague, George Flight, isn't happy at what he sees as interference, and Rebus encounters racial prejudice as well as the usual dangers of trying to catch a vicious killer. Rebus is drafted in by Scotland Yard to help track down a cannibalistic serial killer called the Wolfman, whose first victim was found in the East End of London's lonely Wolf Street. It is the third of the Inspector Rebus novels. Tooth and Nail is a 1992 crime novel by Ian Rankin, originally entitled Wolfman.

Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin