Three novels spanning four decades with Edinburgh's most brilliant detective. Few detectives in British crime fiction have left as deep a mark as John Rebus. Brooding, stubborn, and brilliantly intuitive, Rankin's detective has been navigating the city's darkest corners for four decades. This set brings together three novels that capture Rebus at his most compelling: his electrifying debut, a late-career return and one of his most intricate investigations.
Ian Rankin, 'Knots and Crosses' - Girls are disappearing from Edinburgh's streets, and when the killer begins sending DS Rebus personal taunts, knotted string and matchstick crosses, the investigation stops being one case among many and becomes something far closer to home.
Ian Rankin, 'Even Dogs in the Wild' - When Edinburgh's retired Lord Advocate is murdered and Big Ger Cafferty takes a bullet through his window, both cases carry identical threatening notes. Rebus comes out of retirement because Cafferty will confide in nobody else.
Ian Rankin, 'In a House of Lies' - A body in a rusted car, found in East Lothian woods that police had already searched a decade earlier: someone concealed it there deliberately. The dead man was a private investigator. Rebus worked the original case.
