DescriptionA student has gone missing in Edinburgh - completely out of character. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of extremely well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on, until Detective Inspector John Rebus gets an unmi…
DescriptionBecause the first body was found in Wolf Street, because the murderer takes a bite from each body, the press have found a new terror: "the Wolfman". Drafted down to London thanks to his supposed expertise in the modus operandi of serial killers, Inspector John Rebus is on a train south from Edinburgh. His Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn't too happy at yet more interference. It's bad enough having several Chief Inspectors on your back without being hounded at every turn by an upstart Jock. Rebus is going to have to deal with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac. When he's offered a serial-killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive lady psychologist, it's too good an opportunity to turn down. But in finding an ally, Rebus may have given his enemies an easy means of attack.
DescriptionA junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spread-eagled, cross-like, on the floor, between two burnt candles and below a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict...until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit, and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death that looks more like a murder every day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste and which appeals to the darkest corners of his mind.
DescriptionInspector John Rebus must disinter all four cases to nail just one killer, who might just lead back to the infamous Bible John. And he must do it while facing the glare of an internal inquiry led by a man he has just accused of taking backhanders from Glasgow's Mr. Big, and with TV cameras at his back investigating a miscarriage of justice. One mistake is likely to mean an unpleasant and not particularly speedy death or, worse still, losing his job.
DescriptionIt's now a crucial time for Rebus. His superiors are getting increasingly impatient with his erratic behaviour, and his relationship with Siobhan becomes ever more complicated. And, most worryingly of all, as Rebus grows older, he is starting to feel closer to the criminals he fights than the force he works for. Set against the backdrop of the explosive 2005 G8 summit, this is Rankin's most hard-hitting novel yet. For among the hordes of protesters filling the streets, a serial killer lurks.
