6/9/2023 0 Comments Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin![]() And we get to know a bit more about Rebus: the lonely, driven man trying to unravel the city’s darkest mysteries. But it’s worth a listen for the completist, setting out Rankin’s stall for the rest of the series: the ‘doubleness’ of Edinburgh, the contrast between the affluence and the poverty, the powerful and the powerless. It’s not the strongest Rebus - nowhere close. The final couple of chapters were well done and there’s some good descriptive writing about Edinburgh. At times I felt my attention drifting, and didn’t much care about the fate of any of the characters beyond Rebus (and it’s fairly clear he’ll survive, and indeed crack the case). He’s even lined up, improbably, to lead a public information campaign against drugs. Rebus isn’t quite so much the wise-cracking maverick that he becomes in subsequent titles. There’s less about his sex life than in the first novel in the series, Knots and Crosses (this is the second book). He falls asleep in his armchair listening to old records, after drinking whisky or wine. Later the story takes us into a more rarefied realm, the Edinburgh of lawyers and businessmen. It’s grim, at times nauseating, stuff: spare and brutal. But it’s in the same territory, kicking off with a dead drug addict in a squat. ![]() ![]() Hide and Seek, full of references to Jekyll and Hyde, pre-dates Trainspotting. Hide and Seek (Inspector John Rebus Series 2) by Ian Rankin 3.7 (21) eBook 11.99 Paperback 15.99 eBook 11.99 Audiobook 35.99 Audio MP3 on CD 9.99 Audio CD 9.99 View All Available Formats & Editions Instant Purchase Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps. ![]()
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