![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The contrasts are good – the junkies living in squalid squats close to, but a world away from the tourist Edinburgh which is all that most people see and the financially secure business men. There's a bigger cast of characters than in Knots and Crosses, to the extent that it feels rather crowded at times. Rankin and Rebus had still not gripped the public consciousness and it's unlikely that either of these two books would have stood the test of time were it not for the books which followed, but this is the first occasion when it seems to have crossed Rankin's mind that he was actually writing crime rather than general fiction. This is the second of Ian Rankin's Rebus novels published some four years after the first. It doesn't look like murder until Detective Inspector John Rebus starts to chip away at the indifference and sleaze that's covering the case. A five-pointed star has been daubed on the wall over his head. In an Edinburgh squat a drug addict is found dead, with the body laid out in the shape of a cross and candles at each side. Important only because of the series as a whole it's a book for the completist or the real fan as there are better books later in the series. Summary: The second Rebus novel finds the detective investigating the death of a drug addict. ![]()
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