Ian Rankin by Brendan MacNeill

I watched the final scene of the latest Ian Rankin novel to be dramatised on BBC television. His broken back mended, the young boy was reunited with his father just beneath Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park. It was only then that I finally understood my friend DT’s relationship with the author. Rankin had based much of this tale on the story of DT’s serious bike accident and brave recovery. DT was Ian Rankin’s muse!