Hyde into then-modern Edinburgh ("one reviewer 'got it'"), and with this book he began to like Rebus as a character and thought he could use him as a recurring mouthpiece for stories about his views on Scotland. In the Exile on Princes Street foreword to Rebus: The Early Years, Rankin says this was his second attempt at updating Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Recurring characters Brian Holmes, a fellow detective, and Superintendent "Farmer" Watson first appear here.
When encountering a rentboy, Rebus has a brief flashback to Gordon Reeve from Knots and Crosses.Rebus remembers journalist Jim Stevens from Knots and Crosses, and that he has since moved to London and married a girl "half his age" - a reference to Stevens in Watchman.
It emerges that the dead man took and hid some sensitive photos in a specialist private members' club named Hyde's, where highly connected people in society watch illegal boxing matches. As part of his investigation, Rebus finds the young woman named Tracy who knew the dead man and heard his terrifying last words: "Hide! Hide!" Rebus takes seriously a death which looks more like a murder every day, and he begins to investigate the true circumstances of the death. Some of his colleagues are inclined to categorise it as the routine death of a " junkie", but Rebus is perturbed by some unusual facts of the case: a full package of heroin in the dead man's room, and some mysterious bruises on his face and body. This novel is not to be confused with James Patterson's 1996 novel Hide and Seek.ĭetective Inspector John Rebus finds the body of an overdosed drug addict in an Edinburgh squat, laid out cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, with a five-pointed star painted on the wall above. It is the second of the Inspector Rebus novels. Hide and Seek is a 1991 crime novel by Ian Rankin.
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