Inspector Rebus Novels Hide and Seek, Book 2, (Paperback)

from gypsysmom

This is only the second book about Detective John Rebus but it was written a few years after the first book in the series, Knots & Crosses. Since Ian Rankin made a conscious decision to let Rebus age naturally I presume a few years have also elapsed between the action in the previous book and thi...

from Romonko

No one knows his city like John Rebus (Ian Rankin's detective). He knows all the good things and the things that tourists like to see, but he also knows the seedy and secretive things. These are things that occur in the hidden alleys and bolt holes throughout the city. In this book, even John Reb...

from jmkemp

A fairly easy read. Rebus is an interesting character and the story was well plotted with a less than obvious outcome. It has a realistic feeling to it and lives within the time that it was written, although much of that would still work now. I read it because it was cheap and I have always wonde...

from nwhyte

Hide and Seek expanded one of the themes from Knots and Crosses - Rebus' relationship with his non-policeman brother - for a complex web of pairs of police/non-police brothers whose relationships cross the boundary of legality. It's also the most political of the first three novels, in that Rebus...

from mstrust

In the second book of the Inspector Rebus series, Rebus checks out the death scene of a junkie in an Edinburgh squat. There are aspects that look ritualistic, from the placement of the body, the candles, the drawing on the wall, though it's also clear the deceased had recently shot heroin. Rebus ...