Hide and seek: an inspector rebus novel - Ian Rankin

At night the summer sky stays light over Edinburgh.

But in a shadowy, crumbling housing development, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his bruised body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship.

Inspector Rebus could call the death and accident--but won't.

Instead, he tracks down a violent-tempered young woman who knew the dead boy and heard him cry out his terrifying last words: Hide Hide Now, with the help of a bright, conflicted young detective, Rebus is following the girl through a brutal world of bad deals, bad dope and bad company.

From a beautiful city's darkest side to the private sanctums of the upper crust, Rebus is seeking the perfect hiding place for a killer, in Hide and Seek , the second novel in the series from Ian Rankin.