When a case involving a series of murders of young girls turns into a hunt for one of Rebus's old friends who has now turned into a vengeful enemy, Rebus is forced to confront his own long-repressed memories. Knots and Crosses introduces a gifted mystery novelist, a fascinating locale and the most compellingly complex detective hero at work today.Īlthough scarred by his elite-corps army training, a nervous breakdown and a divorce, police detective Rebus is a dogged investigator in Edinburgh, Scotland. Because he isn't just one cop trying to catch a killer, he's the man who's got all the pieces to the puzzle. But as the ghoulish killings mount and the tabloid headlines scream, Rebus cannot stop the feverish shrieks from within his own mind.
Now he's an Edinburgh cop who hides from his memories, misses promotions and ignores a series of crank letters. Once John Rebus served in Britain's elite SAS. Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children.Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders.and he's tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. Not only is he on the trail of a WWII war criminal- he's also become entangled in a dangerous battle between two rival gangs.
In the 1960s, the infamous Bible John terrorised Scotland when he murdered three women, taking three souvenirs.ĭI John Rebus is hard at work on multiple cases. Struggling through another Edinburgh winter Rebus finds himself sucked into a web of intrigue that throws up more questions than answers. When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body.Ī brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus. Gregor Jack, MP, well-liked, young, married to the fiery Elizabeth - to the outside world a very public success story. They call him the Wolfman - because he takes a bite out of his victims and because they found the first victim in the East End's lonely Wolf Street. And then the messages begin to arrive: knotted string and matchstick crosses - taunting Rebus with pieces of a puzzle only he can solve. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end.Ī junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking and drinking too much, his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife, is one of many policemen hunting the killer. 'That sort of thing' is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls.
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