Hide & seek - Ian Rankin (Inspector Rebus #2)

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat—spread-eagled, a cross-like mark on the floor between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict, until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit, and sleaze that lurk behind the façade of the Edinburgh familiar to the tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death that looks more like murder every day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste, appealing to the darkest corners of his mind.