Hide and Seek

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat. Just another dead addict, until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurk beneath the façade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists.

Only Rebus seems to care about a death that looks more like murder every day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste, appealing to the darkest corners of his mind.