From the BBC World Service, welcome to the documentary in the studio.

I'm Andy Martin. I've come to a chromity in the Scottish Highlands to get inside the creative mind of the crime writer, Sir Ian Rankin. At the end of Part 1, we left Sir Ian in a pub in Scotland's capital, Edinburgh.

Three months later, and a long, long way further north.

We find him in another pub. Ian, good to see you again.

Tell us about property.

Why have I found you in this little town on the northeast coast of Scotland?

I think I'm always attracted to places that are the end of the road and if you drive onto the black aisle

This is the end of the road. You can go no further. You come to Crometer. You just turn around and go back again

And I quite like that. It feels like the end of the world almost. We came here on family holidays and then my wife and I were up here one time for a weekend and we just saw a house for sale.

We ended up buying a house and I found it a very good place to come and write because back in the day and I'm going back 15 20 years

Back in the day there was no mobile phone reception in Cromartie unless you stood on the

sea wall and lifted your hand up very high. So you'd see all these tourists

arrive and jump on the sea wall and lift their hand up really high so they could

see their phone and check their emails.

And we decided not to have a phone in our house and not to have a TV in the house.

So I came here to write, purely to write.

And to certain extent that still pertains, so I sit with a log fire on and some music playing and I just write for a week after week.

We're following Ian's progress as he writes Midnight and Blue, the 25th novel in his multimillion selling

Rebus series, featuring the enigmatic, energetic and sometimes exasperated Scottish,

and sometimes exasperated Scottish detective inspector John Rebus.

So how's it going?

Now as I sit talking to you I have notes feedback from my wife, my UK editor, my US editor and my agent and I have not looked at any of them.

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