Inspector Rebus · Book 2
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.
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