Other editions of book Hide and Seek

In a shadowy, crumbling Edinburgh housing development, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship. Inspector John Rebus could call it an accident. But won’t. Now he’s got to search the city, from the tunnels of its dark underbelly to the private sanctum of the upper crust, to find the perfect hiding place for a killer.“Ian Rankin is up there among the best crime novelists at work today.” ―Michael Connelly “A superior series.” ―The New York Times Book Review“Ian Rankin, you cannot go wrong.” ―The Boston Globe“A novelist of great scope, depth, and power.” ―Jonathan Kellerman

A 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. 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. 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 ...

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat and he's just another dead addict. Nobody but Detective Inspector John Rebus, prowling the streets of the city in search of something so evil he can almost taste it, confronting the darkness within himself as well as without, gives a damn. Edinburgh is booming, businesses are moving in and new houses being built for the immigrants freshly arrived from London, ready to experience the city's inimitable 'quality of life'. But they don't see the city Rebus does: the treachery, deceit and sleaze he confronts as he digs deeper into a death that looks more and more like murder, the deeper he goes. There is something savage and seductive at large in Edinburgh, something from which there is nowhere to hide.