As part of his investigation, Rebus finds the young woman named Tracy who knew the dead man and heard his terrifying last words: "Hide! Many of the annotations comment on ways in which Rebus's character differs from his later incarnations: 'Rebus is much more bookish/literate in the early novels.

Too impatient, unwilling to really flesh Rebus out, Rankin offers another practise run with Hide and Seek, as he tries to figure the character out.This second novel in the Inspector Rebus series was intended as a companion to the first and again the literary references are evident throughout and the play of the famous novel Jekyll and Hyde works well as things unravel. In a shadowy, crumbling housing development, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his bruised body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship.

It is an investigation that will find him not just trying to solve a crime but fighting for his life. I’m loving your book reviews though, and I’m slowly getting to a point where I think I’ll soon have time to read. Set in the 1990s in a gritty Edinburgh where wealth and poverty are side by side in a city of contrasts.But the real beauty, the true quality of the writing, is in the character development and the superb dialogue. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Michael Connelly] No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; The bindings are tight and square. Like Hercule Poirot he believes in solving crime using his grey cells while his juniors can do the legwork.

narfna on “What the stories never said: at the end of the day, if a man wants to kill you, he kills you.There's not the finesse that you find in the later books but there are signs that there's some potential there.