Tooth and Nail is an old fashioned detective story from an award winning author that will keep readers spellbound until the final sentence. Rebus investigates the Wolfman in his own fashion, drawing help from a psychologist who claims she can profile the killer based on his victims, while at the same time dealing with a family crisis involving his sixteen year old daughter. Rebus has only hunted one serial killer and that case was personal. Rebus feels out of place and like a fraud as the detectives and reporters call him a serial killer expert. In this novel, Rebus is sent to London to help detectives hunt a serial killer dubbed the Wolfman by the press. When Rebus is offered a serial killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive female psychologist, it's too good an opportunity to miss.Tooth and Nail is the third novel by Ian Rankin featuring Inspector John Rebus. But his Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn't happy at yet more interference, and Rebus finds himself dealing with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac. Scotland Yard are anxious to find the killer and Inspector Rebus is drafted in to help. They call him the Wolfman - because he takes a bite out of his victims and because they found the first victim in the East End's lonely Wolf Street. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like a murder every day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste, appealing to the darkest corners of his mind. Just another dead addict - until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. And then the messages begin to arrive: knotted string and matchstick crosses - taunting Rebus with pieces of a puzzle only he can solve.Ī junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spread-eagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. 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 now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. 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.

Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin