![]() Anyhow, naturally the killer wants revenge against Rebus, so he snatches Rebus’ daughter, which you saw coming from the first page the poor girl is introduced, and so Rebus’ brother, Michael, who happens to be a hypnotist and a big drug dealer, helps him recall his past in time to catch the killer before he murders the girl, but not before he murders Rebus’ ex-wife’s boyfriend. Naturally, he doesn’t put that together with the current murders, but we the readers know better because we’ve read this a hundred times before. Menawhile, Rebus is also receiving strange notes in the mail–bits of string, matches fastened into crosses, cryptic messages. Anyway, a serial killer is snatching random young girls and killing them, although not sexually assaulting them, and the Edinburgh police are struggling to catch him. Rebus has some horrid past that of course links up to the present day mystery but which is maddening, then ultimately boring and common. Ian Rankin’s “Knots and Crosses” is about police detective John Rebus in Edinburgh. I muddled through, though, because I paid for it and it wasn’t completely offensive–although it did come close. ![]() I really wanted to like this book when I first set out to read it. ![]()
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