Inspector Rebus span a broad spectrum of Scotland, including council estates, tenements, business districts, nightclubs, prisons, dying mining towns, secluded villages and desolate hillsides, as well as the better-known pubs and streets of Edinburgh. Some of these locations are fictional, although they may be based on real places. For example, the Pilmuir estate is a conflation of the two real Edinburgh locations Pilton and Muirhouse. Other locations, such as the Oxford Bar, Arden Street, and St Leonards police station, are real. Frequent references to real places, or local politics firmly ground the Rebus series in the real world. Another strong feature of
The Rankin Family About the World" (2011), and "Back Road Paradise" (2014). Raylene Rankin released the solo albums "Lambs in Spring" (2004) and "all the diamonds" (2011). When not performing on their own, the sisters run The Red Shoe pub in Mabou. One of the founders of the group, Geraldine Coyne (Rankin), died January 10, 2007, the result of a brain aneurysm, at her home in Calgary. She had not performed with the group since prior to the first recordings' being released. On January 16, 2007, the album "Reunion" was released, and in 2009 the Rankin Family released their seventh studio album, "These