Knots and Crosses (Crime Club)

by No Author Provided (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.25

  A crime story set in Edinburgh where a murderer is on the loose. The victims are young girls and Detective John Rebus is also being plagued by anonymous letters accompanied by pieces of knotted string and little matchstick crosses. To cap it all his wife has deserted him. Ian Rankin's first novel is entitled The Flood .

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.25

  'And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you...?' 'That sort of thing' is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. 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. And then the messages begin to arrive: knotted string and matchstick crosses - taunting Rebus with pieces of a puzzle only he can solve.

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $11.54

  The very first Rebus novel from the No.1 bestselling author. 'And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you...?' 'That sort of thing' is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. 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. And then the messages begin to arrive: knotted string and matchstick crosses - taunting Rebus with pieces of a puzzle only he can solve.