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2000s: You don’t know Edinburgh if you haven’t walked in Rebus’ footsteps.
Knots and Crosses (Rebus 1)
What you need to know before your trail
Detective John Rebus: proud to live in his city of Edinburgh. Divorced and with a drink problem, he once worked for the SAS but now has returned to Scotland’s capital city where he now works as a DS. He hides away and tries not to let his memories or former life shade his opinion of the here and now. but a series of kidnappings of young girls makes him take notice of what he needs to do.
When his city is terrorized by a series of murders, it’s true that he takes the matter very personally indeed.
Travel Guide
Now that Rebus is many novels into the series, this is the place to start as it is at this point that not only Edinburgh but Rebus’s Edinburgh that is now firmly on the literary map.
No one can quite believe that such a dark kind of crime could happen in the capital city, the city of culture and it is perhaps the city of culture and the lights and cultural highlights that makes the drudgery of the police force so vivid and dark.
What about the creepy letters he receives at the police station with the bits of knotted rope and matchsticks in them as in the title of the book?
The way in which Rebus pounds the streets in the search for clues and to investigate new leads, often stopping in to the nearest pub brings much of the darker streets of the city to life. Difficult for its premise involving children but a good introduction to the detective and his city.
Streetview Maps
Edinburgh : Royal Oak pub where Rebus drinks
Edinburgh : Central Library, features in the investigations
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