A cross without the nails, naked from the waist up.
Two large candles had burnt down to the shapes of fried eggs against the bare floorboards, and between them lay the body, legs together, arms outstretched. “Edinburgh’s army of squatters” had made it their den and it is here that the junkie’s body is found: Pilmuir is a run-down housing estate, with boarded-up terraced houses, ruptured drainpipes, broken fences and missing gates. It begins with a junkie in a squat in Pilmuir, Edinburgh shrieking “Hide!” and in fear of his life. Hide and Seek is Rankin’s second book featuring Rebus. As the main point of my blog is to record what I think about the books I’ve read and to remind me of them, this is not good. That was a mistake because now I come to write about it my memory of it is a bit vague. If you’re *not* queasy, though, recommended.I finished reading Hide and Seek a few weeks ago and didn’t take any notes whilst reading it. I like Rebus and I’m glad to have started this long-heard-of but unread series at long last still, if you’re a queasy reader, I’d probably give these books a miss as there is a lot of violence and, well, sordid behaviour on pretty much everybody’s part. We learn a little more about Rebus’s thought processes, and we meet DC Brian Holmes (who I assume will be Rebus’s second in later books) we also learn more about the higher (male) echelons of Edinburgh’s society, which may or may not be a good thing. This is the second John Rebus novel, published in 1990, and featuring the gritty underbelly of Edinburgh during those years. He resolves to use his free time to dig a little deeper into the death, but soon finds that it is taking him to places, and people, he never would have imagined…. He is told to wrap up his current cases and take things easy until meetings can be arranged, but Rebus has just come across the death of a junkie in a squat, an apparent overdose that just doesn’t smell right to him.
John Rebus, now a detective inspector with the Edinburgh police department, has been tapped by Superintendent Watson to head up a civilian-financed drugs program.
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