From bestselling Ian Rankin; winner of the 1997 CWA Macallan Gold Dagger for fiction for Black & Blue; come the early Inspector Rebus novels; gathered in one volume for the first time. KNOTS & CROSSES: Two girls have been abducted and brutally murdered. Now a third is missing. Detective Sergeant John Rebus; his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife; is one of the 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 ... HIDE & SEEK: A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat. Just another addict; until Inspector Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference; treachery; deceit and sleaze that lurk behind the facade of the city familiar to tourists. And only Rebus seems to care about a death that looks more like murder every day; a death that appeals to the darkest corners of his mind. TOOTH & NAIL: Drafted down to the Big Smoke thanks to a supposed expertise in the modus operandi of serial killers; Inspector Rebus is on the trail of a man who; due to his penchant for taking a bite from each of his victims; is known as the Wolfman. When Rebus is offered a profile of the Wolfman by an attractive lady psychologist; it seems too good an opportunity to turn down. But in finding an ally; he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack ...