It becomes clear that the killer has some personal connection to the detective. Then a message is delivered to Rebus’s home: For those who read between the times. The first few messages say There are clues everywhere. Rebus – 41-year-old drinker, ex-soldier, failed husband, absentee father, Christian, annual rereader of Crime and Punishment – begins receiving a series of cryptic notes. A series of local girls had been kidnapped and strangled.
In 1987, Ian Rankin’s novel Knots & Crosses introduced us to a tough Edinburgh Detective Sergeant called John Rebus.
According to the OED, a ‘rebus’ is ‘an enigmatic representation of a name, word or phrase by figures, pictures, arrangement of letters etc, which suggest the syllables of which it is made up’.
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