The Oxford Bar of police officers drink there. In "Dirty Work: Ian Rankin and John Rebus Book-By-Book", Ray Dexter and Nadine Carr note that the Oxford Bar would be an improbable local for Rebus due to its geographical location. Other visitors to the bar have included actor Sean Connery and author Colin Dexter. Quintin Jardine's 2009 Bob Skinner novel, "Fatal Last Words", also mentions the Oxford Bar considerably, again due to the connection with the local police force drinking there. There are a few other nods to Rankin too. The Oxford Bar The Oxford Bar is a public house situated on Young Street,
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