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

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After reading four of the recent books, I am definitely hooked on the series and bought the two most recent ones, the only problem being setting them aside for now. The reviews and comments posted on this site reflect the opinions of individual posters and do not reflect the views of Cannonball Read. Ronnie's girlfriend, Tracy, tells Detective Inspector John Rebus that Ronnie was distraught before he died, and repeatedly cried "hide, hide. The John Rebus from the first book was suffering from memories of the war, and in this book there’s very few mentions of the war and none of what haunted him. He can bend rules to solve crimes or as in Hollywood films they say he can go rogue to catch the bad guy.

In a shadowy, crumbling housing development, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his bruised body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship. Our Adult Fiction Books, Range includes Classics Novels, Comic Books, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Novels, General Fiction, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction and War. 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 . I suppose we've got to give it an overall rating of three stars and try another entry in the series to see if there are better pickings as far as plot goes.Corruption, blackmail, illegal boxing, exploitation and those at the top getting away with crimes appears to be a common conclusion with Rebus stories. but that doesn’t stop a lot of idiotic people out there who actually still believe that diseases like cancer or AIDS are caused by homosexuals. There is something savage and seductive at large in Edinburgh, something from which there is nowhere to hide. In reading some reviews, I now understand that the future John Rebus is, as one reviewer put it, “surly, petulant, impulsive and distrusting.

Rebus is able to arrest Hyde's owner and several high-profile members, but to his disgust all die suspicious deaths while imprisoned: the powers-that-be are covering it up to prevent scandal. 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. There's not much of Rebus' personal life here: wife and daughter are out of the picture, he has split up from Gill Templer (though there are still some feelings there), his brother has been packed off to jail, and there isn't that much interaction with his colleagues beyond Holmes (whom he is only just getting to know) and Watson. A contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts, on Channel 4 in 2002.Hide and Seek" follows the continuing life development of Inspector John Rebus along with all his ingenuity and shortcomings. The clever, appealing, understated British style of wit and humour was apparent throughout the entire novel despite its dark setting (unquestionably worth four stars). Interesting that this book, about a detective who uncovers a hidden underbelly beneath his hometown of Endinburgh, Scotland in which super-wealthy assholes do horrible things to homeless young men and women and get away with it because nobody has the balls to actually do anything about it was only about 18 years away from a movie (“Taken”) in which a father uncovers a secret underbelly of super-wealthy assholes who kidnap young women and do horrible things with them.