Rebus is back, this time on the tail of a serial killer known as the Wolfman. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like a murder every day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste, appealing to the darkest corners of his mind. Just another dead addict - until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Inspector Rebus returns in the second novel from 'Britain's No.1 crime writer' (DAILY MIRROR).Ī junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking and drinking too much, his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife, is one of many policemen hunting the killer.Īnd then the messages begin to arrive: knotted string and matchstick crosses - taunting Rebus with pieces of a puzzle only he can solve. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. 'That sort of thing' is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you.?' The very first Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author. Three Ian Rankin novels covering the early years of Inspector John Rebus
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