In a shadowy, crumbling housing development, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his bruised body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship. Rebus va perfilándose como el investigador solitario al que no le importa tener que enfrentarse a los grandes, si con ello consigue que la verdad salga a la luz. It’s fine to jump in here and there, but so much better if you follow the development of the characters throughout. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. The John Rebus from the first book was suffering from memories of the war, and in this book there’s very few mentions of the war and none of what haunted him.

Meanwhile, he’s meeting some of Edinburgh’s richest businessmen and most influential men, who are backing his work on drugs.bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES - 'unmatched in the field of British crime fiction' THE TIMES.

bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES 'It's another Rebus novel you can't put down, and Rankin at his most powerful' CHOICE 'Rankin is superb' DAILY MAIL An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme. His girlfriend Tracy is a woman with anger management issues gives him the clues, a missing camera and Ronnie’s last words to her to hide. Yet I can’t really attack Rankin for his early decisions because the guy diffuses the bomb in his forwards to Knots and Crosses and Hide and Seek. Junkies, addicts and pushers; gay and straight prostitution; dog fighting; illegal high stakes gaming and brothels; corruption in the police force, on the bench and at the bar; alcoholics and drunkards - they all make their way onto the stage of Hide and Seek in a novel that seems determined to portray Scotland as a bleak and unrelentingly dreary den of sin and iniquity.He can bend rules to solve crimes or as in Hollywood films they say he can go rogue to catch the bad guy.