Hide & Seek
Hide & Seek
by Ian Rankin
Publisher Barrie & Jenkins
Genre: Crime
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- UK First Edition
- First Printing
- Hardcover
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Book Condition & Notes
Signed on a loosely inserted bookplate. A very good first edition, in the publisher's red binding. Top and bottom of the spine are creased and pages slightly yellowed. Slight lean to the spine. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket.
About the book
A 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 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 which looks more like a murder every day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste, appealing to the darkest corners of his mind...
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About the Author
Ian Rankin
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into thirty-six languages and are bestsellers worldwide.
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