Hide And Seek: From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES

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Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, and Edinburgh.

These are the dregs, a squalid society of addicts and derelicts, people long since disconnected from a society that is preoccupied with the new businesses and the new homes bringing prosperity to a city concentrating on advertising its quality of life.

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 . Go to any church service on Sunday morning at any church where, if you aren’t driving a Lexus, Rolls-Royce, or a Mercedes, they ask you (politely of course) to park in the overflow lot down the street. That one or more of the rich gentlemen of Edinburgh’s business classes would meet a sticky end was inevitable, almost too predictable for my liking.

Like Hercule Poirot he believes in solving crime using his grey cells while his juniors can do the legwork. The flaws stopping this from being As-new are 1 gently bumped corner, 1 corner a little less than sharp and a tiny, tiny chip to crown of dj that you need to look for.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. All evidence points towards an overdoses, except for one: the man’s body is elaborately staged, with the lower half of his body wrapped in plastic and his arms spread out as if he’s been crucified. There were scenes here that had me laughing aloud which also included dialogue as caustic and cutting as you’ll find anywhere in literature.

The difference is that in the 2008 film, the father (Liam Neeson) does something about it, in a big way, in a way that is not-so-secretly satisfying to every father who has a daughter.If talking about the topic of international sex trafficking or the global big-business industry of pedophelia and child pornography bothers you, stop reading this review immediately. Rebus seems to be of interest to these rich, successful men, who invite him to a classy party and give him an 'honorary membership' in a gambling club. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice center (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). If you're serious about the Rebus novels then you're going to want to but it is perfectly possible to come into the series at a later point and still derive a great deal of enjoyment from them.