Hide and Seek
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 267
- ISBN-13
- 9780312963972
- Type
- novel
About this book
Hide and Seek (1991), the second Rebus novel at 267 pages, continues Ian Rankin's tartan-noir look at Edinburgh -- the tourist Old Town sitting atop a darker underworld of gangsters and old grudges that Rebus keeps colliding with.
Key facts about Hide and Seek
Hide and Seek is a novel by Ian Rankin. Readers have had it since 1991. It runs to 267 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Hide and Seek. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780312963972 to find the main one.
Hide and Seek is book 2 of 27 in the Inspector Rebus series. The series has 27 published books. However, the series starts with Knots and Crosses (1987). Midnight and Blue is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 10 October 2024.
Additionally, Ian Rankin writes Jack Laidlaw and Malcolm Fox as separate series. Those series sit on our crime fiction and police procedural shelves. Meanwhile, The Heights is the latest published Ian Rankin book on file, from 8 October 2026.
About Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin is a Scottish crime writer whose Inspector John Rebus series has become one of the defining bodies of work in modern British crime fiction, and whose Edinburgh setting -- rendered in unglamorous, atmospheric detail -- is as much a character in the books as Rebus himself. See every Ian Rankin book in order.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
Hide and Seek is book 2 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows Knots and Crosses. It is followed by Tooth and Nail. See the full Inspector Rebus reading order.
John Rebus is a Detective Inspector with Edinburgh CID: a hard-drinking, rule-bending insomniac who solves cases as much through stubbornness and an instinct for the city's underside as through procedure. Ian Rankin builds each novel around a real strand of Edinburgh life — the tourist Old Town sitting on top of a much darker New Town of gangsters, corrupt councillors and old sectarian grudges — and lets Rebus's insubordination with his superiors (and his complicated, decades-long feud-turned-uneasy-alliance with…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781480523548
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312963972