banned from writing sex scenes involving his famous detective Rebus.The author revealed he had penned a passage involving the Edinburgh police officer in bed with a woman in one of his early novels.However, his editor insisted the scene was removed as he didn’t think it would go down well with readers.Fife-born Rankin was told to avoid any graphic descriptions of sex in his books and leave it to the reader’s imagination.He said: “There is not much romance in my books.“In the third novel, when I was very young, I did put a sex scene in.
I thought, ‘If you’re going to do crime novels there should be a bit of sex in there as well’."I had Rebus having sex and my editor said ‘No, please don’t.
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